nova/nova/virt/hyperv/README.rst
Alessandro Pilotti bae2632658 Adds Hyper-V support in nova-compute (with new network_info model), including unit tests
blueprint hyper-v-revival

Features included in ths commit:

Spawn (including CoW image option support)
Destroy
Info
List
Pause
Unpause
Suspend
Resume
Reboot
Power On
Power Off
Snapshot
Volume Attach
Volume Detach
Boot from Volume
Live Migration

Supported platforms:

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012

Unit tests:

Unit tests for all the listed features are included.
Tests can be execute on Linux as well.

nova.conf relevant flags:

Compute driver:

compute_driver=nova.virt.hyperv.driver.HyperVDriver

External vswitch to be used:

vswitch_name=an_external_vswitch

Path where the VHDs are going to be stored

instances_path=C:\Hyper-V\instances

Live migration support for hosts with etherogeneus CPUs

limit_cpu_features=true

Change-Id: Ic40adcd2d78b0ca6792d77940810f5a44de8cc37
2012-08-16 03:38:51 +03:00

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Hyper-V Volumes Management

To enable the volume features, the first thing that needs to be done is to enable the iSCSI service on the Windows compute nodes and set it to start automatically.

sc config msiscsi start= auto net start msiscsi

In Windows Server 2012, it's important to execute the following commands to prevent having the volumes being online by default:

diskpart san policy=OfflineAll exit

How to check if your iSCSI configuration is working properly:

On your OpenStack controller:

1. Create a volume with e.g. "nova volume-create 1" and note the generated volume id

On Windows:

  1. iscsicli QAddTargetPortal <your_iSCSI_target>
  2. iscsicli ListTargets

The output should contain the iqn related to your volume: iqn.2010-10.org.openstack:volume-<volume_id>

How to test Boot from volume in Hyper-V from the OpenStack dashboard:

  1. Fist of all create a volume
  2. Get the volume ID of the created volume

3. Upload and untar to the Cloud controller the next VHD image: http://dev.opennebula.org/attachments/download/482/ttylinux.vhd.gz 4. sudo dd if=/path/to/vhdfileofstep3 of=/dev/nova-volumes/volume-XXXXX <- Related to the ID of step 2 5. Launch an instance from any image (this is not important because we are just booting from a volume) from the dashboard, and don't forget to select boot from volume and select the volume created in step2. Important: Device name must be "vda".