Migration From VMware to Sardina To Perform Migration, There will be a new project where the Migration tools appliance reside on.The migration tools that will be used is called Moveit. There are several steps that are needed to be configured to perform the migration itself.The tools need to have both VMware credentials to see the […]
Category: Openstack
Sardina Documentation Series – Part-5
Create and manage networks The OpenStack Networking service provides a scalable system for managing the network connectivity within an OpenStack cloud deployment. It can easily and quickly react to changing network needs (for example, creating and assigning new IP addresses). Networking in OpenStack is complex. This section provides the basic instructions for creating a network […]
Sardina Documentation Series – Part 6
Create and manage object containers OpenStack Object Storage (swift) is used for redundant, scalable data storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible data. It is a long-term storage system for large amounts of static data which can be retrieved and updated. OpenStack Object Storage provides a distributed, API-accessible storage platform that […]
Sardina Documentation Series – Part 7
Create and manage volumes Volumes are block storage devices that you attach to instances to enable persistent storage. You can attach a volume to a running instance or detach a volume and attach it to another instance at any time. You can also create a snapshot from or delete a volume. Only administrative users can […]
Sardina Documentation Series – Part-2
Upload and manage images A virtual machine image, referred to in this document simply as an image, is a single file that contains a virtual disk that has a bootable operating system installed on it. Images are used to create virtual machine instances within the cloud. For information about creating image files, see the OpenStack […]
Sardina Documentation Series – Part-1
Log in to the Dashboard The dashboard is generally installed on the controller node. OpenStack dashboard — Project tab Projects are organizational units in the cloud and are also known as tenants or accounts. Each user is a member of one or more projects. Within a project, a user creates and manages instances. From the […]
Openstack Procedure to Turn on/off cluster
SOP to turn off cluster: kolla-ansible mariadb_backup -i ./multinode turn off all instances from openstack Turn status HA segment hosts to On Maintenance =True Disable HA segment from Openstack Horizon kolla-ansible stop -i ./multinode Move to Ceph Cluster ceph osd set noout turn off all ceph nodes Turn Off all Openstack Related Nodes > from […]
openstack instance to vmware and ova
Create Instance Snapshot From volume snapshot make a new volume or detach real volume from instance (need to shutdown instance) Upload volume as image Set as qcow2 format Waiting waiting Until done uploading Copy id and save image with CLI Convert to vmdk when -f format before -p progress -O output format Upload vmdk file […]
Create Openstack Lab. Part 1 – Nodes Preparation
We’ll deploy an Openstack lab. consists of total 6 nodes (3 controllers + 3 computes) Specifications for controller and compute nodes: Install MaaS – Check here for how-to guide Commission and deploy Ubuntu 20.04 on all machines Create user ‘openstack’ Add user ‘openstack’ to ‘sudo’ group Configure user ‘openstack’ to be able to run ‘sudo’ […]
create Stack files for Openstack orchestration file
heat_template_version: “[template version]”description: “[stack description]”resources:Server_1:type: “OS::Nova::Server”properties:security_groups:– “[security group ID]”networks:– network: “[network ID]”fixed_ip: “[static ip]”name: “[instance name]”flavor: “[flavor name]”image: “[image ID]”availability_zone: novakey_name: [key name] Server_2:type: “OS::Nova::Server”properties:security_groups:– “[security group ID]”networks:– network: “[network ID]”fixed_ip: “[static ip]”name: “[instance name]”flavor: “[flavor name]”image: “[image ID]”availability_zone: novakey_name: [key name]depends_on:– Server_1 ….. FOR EXAMPLE: