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Copyright 2015 Citrix Systems
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Fuel Plugin for Xenserver
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The XenServer plugin provides the ability to use Xenserver as the
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hypervisor for Mirantis OpenStack.
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Compatible with Fuel version 8.0.
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Problem description
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There is currently no supported way for Citrix Xenserver customers to
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use Mirantis OpenStack in their environments. Further, Fuel does not
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provide sufficient flexibility to add a new hypervisor option to the
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wizard, meaning that any users of Citrix XenServer who wish to
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manually configure Fuel are required to select an incorrect hypervisor
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then made post-install changes to switch them over to using XenServer.
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Proposed change
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===============
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Unfortunately the Fuel Plugin architecture is not sufficiently
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flexible to allow a plugin to add a new hypervisor option to the
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wizard. Therefore, this plugin will provide a new Release definition
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which can be used to automatically install with XenServer.
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Alternatives
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------------
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N/A - the aim is to implement a Fuel plugin.
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Data model impact
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None, although a new Release will be installed into the existing model.
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REST API impact
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---------------
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None.
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Upgrade impact
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When upgrading the Fuel Master node to Fuel Version higher than 8.0,
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plugin compatibility should be checked, and a new plugin installed if
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necessary.
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Security impact
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---------------
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None.
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Notifications impact
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None.
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Other end user impact
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Once the plugin is installed, the user can select the XenServer
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Release and then configure the access credentials in the Settings tab
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of the Fuel Web UI.
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Performance Impact
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None.
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Plugin impact
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The plugin will:
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* Install a customized Release definition (based on Ubuntu) which will
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only be usable to install an environment with XenServer
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* Connect to XenServer over a new network (an internal management
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network)
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* Require the network is already set up on the host (to be
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documented)
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* Set up the network to use DHCP, which will allow access to
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XenServer over a fixed link-local IP 169.254.0.1
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* Configure Nova to the XenAPI driver and use this interface to
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connect
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* Configure the Compute VM to provide a NATed interface to Dom0 so
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that storage traffic (for example, when downloading the initial
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image) which originates in Dom0 can be routed through the Compute VM
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as a gateway
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Other deployer impact
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The plugin requries the Compute nodes to be created on the XenServer
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hosts as XenServer's Nova plugin requires access to the virtual disks
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as they are being created.
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Developer impact
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None.
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Infrastructure impact
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None.
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Implementation
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Assignee(s)
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Primary assignee:
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Huan Xie <huan.xie@citrix.com> (developer)
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Other contributors:
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Bob Ball <bob.ball@citrix.com> (developer, reviewer)
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Jianghua Wang <jianghua.wang@citrix.com> (developer)
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John Hua <john.hua@citrix.com> (developer)
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Work Items
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* Upgrade the XenServer Fuel 7.0 plugin to work with Fuel 8.0.
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* Test XenServer plugin.
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* Create the documentation.
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Dependencies
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* Fuel 8.0
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Testing
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* Prepare a test plan.
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* Test the plugin according to the test plan.
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Documentation Impact
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====================
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* Create the following documentation:
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* User Guide.
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* Test Plan.
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* Test Report.
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References
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* Citrix XenServer official documentation: http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer
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* What is Xen? by Xen.org: http://xen.org/files/Marketing/WhatisXen.pdf
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* Xen Hypervisor project: http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/hypervisor.html
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* Xapi project: http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html
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* Further XenServer and OpenStack information: http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServer
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