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Introduction
The OpenStack setup can have services separately on different machines in order to optimize performance. Here is a procedure for installing a four machine setup. The setup has all the machines running Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. The version of OpenStack is Essex. This procedure is based on OpenStack Beginners Guide 1. 2. 3. 4. Controller Compute Node Volume Node Storage Node Controller Nova API, Nova Scheduler, Nova Cert, Nova Consoleauth, Nova Network, Nova
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Compute Node

Volume Node

Storage Node

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Services

Doc, Keystone, OpenStack, Dashboard, MySQL, RabbitMQ Server

Nova Compute

Nova Volume

Swift, glance

No of NICs IP Addresses

2 Eth0-10.0.0.11, Eth1192.168.3.1 /boot 2G, /home 40G, swap 4G, /var -20G / Rest of the space. controller 10.0.0.1

2 Eth0-10.0.0.12, Eth1192.168.3.2 /boot 2G, swap 4G, /- 70G, /50G, /var/lib/nova-Rest of the space. compute 10.0.0.1

2 Eth0-10.0.0.13, Eth1 192.168.3.3 /boot 2G, / 10G, /var 5G, swap 4G, LVM Volume Group with the name nova-volumes rest of the space volume 10.0.0.1

2 Eth0-10.0.0.14, Eth1 192.168.3.4 /boot 2G, / 50G, /var/lib/glance 500G, Swp 4G, Create an empty partition for Swift in rest of the space storage 10.0.0.1

Partitioning Scheme Hostname Gateway IP

Controller
The Controller consists of the following components 1. 2. 3. 4. Nova API Nova Scheduler Nova Cert Nova Consoleauth
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5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Nova Network Nova Doc Keystone OpenStack Dashboard MySQL RabbitMQ Server

The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 2GB with Non VT-Enabled CPU and 500GB of Disk space.

Compute Node
The Compute Node has the following components 1. nova-compute The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 10GB with VT-Enabled CPU and 1 TB of Disk space. The Memory and Storage capacity can be increased according to needs of the environment.

Volume Node
The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 4GB with Non VT-Enabled CPU and 5 TB of Disk space. The Storage capacity can be increased according to needs of the environment. The Volume Node has the following components 1. nova-volume
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Storage Node
The recommended Hardware needed for the contrroller would be a Server with memory of around 4GB with Non VT-Enabled CPU and 5 TB of Disk space. The Storage capacity can be increased according to needs of the environment. The Storage Node has the following components 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. swift-account swift-container swift-object swift-proxy memchached glance-api glance-registry

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September 13, 2012 at 4:09 pm Posted in Cloud Computing, Essex, Nova Network, Nova Scheduler, Nova Ubuntu, Nova Volume, OpenStack, OpenStack Book, OpenStack Dashboard, OpenStack Documentation, OpenStack Guide, OpenStack Help, OpenStack Manual, OpenStack Ubuntu, Ubuntu 12.04

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Subscribe to comments with RSS. Good idea. A simple question, why not with FOLSOM? It is stable as it can be added projects: QUANTUM and CINDER? Thank you. Moula October 3, 2012 at 5:39 pm Reply It was on the pipeline. And then we got busy with other things and the idea kinda stalled. Were planning to bring out a Grizzly doc and hopefully Havana too Y Yogesh September 13, 2013 at 4:39 pm Reply

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Thank you for this answer, one year after

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Thank you for this answer, one year after We can talk now, from Havan with : Neutron, Heat, Lbaas, Vpnaas, Ceilometer Decidedly the openstack project going too fast. thankyou Moula September 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm

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