openstack-manuals/doc/config-reference/compute/section_hypervisor_powervm.xml
Diane Fleming b417259465 Update headings plus edits for consistency and clarity in Config Reference
Partial-Bug: #1250515

author: diane fleming

Change-Id: I92c9ad25ee5bbd2c9334c4860637faa1b358718b
backport: havana
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="powervm">
<title>PowerVM</title>
<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
<section xml:id="powervm-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>PowerVM compute driver connects to an Integrated Virtualization
Manager (IVM) to perform PowerVM Logical Partition (LPAR)
deployment and management. The driver supports file-based deployment
using images from the OpenStack Image Service.</para>
<note><para>Hardware Management Console (HMC) is not yet supported.</para></note>
<para>For more detailed information about PowerVM Virtualization system,
refer to the IBM Redbook publication:
<link xlink:href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247940.html">
IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration</link>.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="powervm-config">
<title>Configuration</title>
<para>To enable the PowerVM compute driver, add the following configuration
options <filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename>:
<programlisting language="ini">compute_driver=nova.virt.powervm.PowerVMDriver
powervm_mgr_type=ivm
powervm_mgr=powervm_hostname_or_ip_address
powervm_mgr_user=padmin
powervm_mgr_passwd=padmin_user_password
powervm_img_remote_path=/path/to/remote/image/directory
powervm_img_local_path=/path/to/local/image/directory/on/compute/host</programlisting>
</para>
<xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-powervm.xml"/>
</section>
<section xml:id="powervm-limits">
<title>Limitations</title>
<para>
PowerVM LPARs names have a limit of 31 characters. Since OpenStack Compute instance names
are mapped to LPAR names in Power Systems, make sure
<literal>instance_name_template</literal>
config option in <filename>nova.conf</filename> yields names that have 31 or fewer characters.
</para>
</section>
</section>