OpenStack Essex Crowbar Installation Guide

This is OpenStack Install guide on VMWare Workstation Under Windows

1. Download ISO

Open the page select CrowBar OpenStack ISO and download it.

At this time it is available Crowbar 1.4 with OpenStack Essex

2. Create VLAN interface in VMWare Workstation

We need 192.168.124.0 with mask 255.255.255.0 network, VMnet1

Change VMnet8 to have 192.168.[your VMnet8].1 router and Change in Windows→Networks->Setting->VMnet8->IPv4 Setting->IP to
192.168.[your VMnet8].2

3. Create Virtual Machine

Select networks: 1. VMnet1 2. VMnet8 NAT

Create Virtual Machine as Linux Ubuntu-64, select custom install,
2 cores, 2 CPUs, 4Gb Memory and 20Gb Disk.

Select ISO in CD-rom, start installation

Change “.vmx” file

vcpu.hotadd = FALSE

Start installation process

4. Boot and change networks

Boot VM after installation

Login: crowbar/crowbar

Change user to root

sudo bash

Enter: crowbar

Change eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces

Append text:

auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp

Refresh networks

service networking restart

Check NAT is working

ping google.com

5. Changing proposal for Network barclamp

Be superuser

Go to network barclamp

cd /opt/dell/barclamps/network

Edit json

nano chef/data_bags/crowbar/bc-template-network.json

Change settings:

attributes.network.mode="dual" networks.public.use_vlan="false" networks.public.subnet=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].0 networks.public.netmask=255.255.255.0 networks.public.broadcast=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].255 networks.public.router=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].1 networks.public.ranges.host.start=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].3 networks.public.ranges.host.end=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].25 networks.public.ranges.dhcp.start=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].26 networks.public.ranges.dhcp.end=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].50

networks.nova_floating.use_vlan="false" networks.nova_floating.subnet=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].64 networks.nova_floating.netmask=255.255.255.192 networks.nova_floating.broadcast=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].127 networks.nova_floating.ranges.host.start=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].65 networks.nova_floating.ranges.host.end=192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].126

Change admin block if your eth0 is not in 192.168.124.0

5. Continue normal install process

Be superuser

cd /tftpboot/ubuntu_dvd/extra

Run install script

./install admin.[your domain].com

To see screen run

screen -r -S crowbar-install

6. Crowbar operation

cd /opt/dell/bin
./crowbar network allocate_ip default admin.[your domain].com public host 192.168.[your NAT VMnet8].10 -U crowbar -P crowbar

Open crowbar page http://192.168.124.10:3000

Login: crowbar/crowbar

Open chef server page http://192.168.124.10:4040

Login: admin/password

Open Nagios page http://192.168.124.10/nagios3
Open Ganglia page http://192.168.124.10/ganglia

Login: nagiosadmin/password