OpenStack Essex Installation Guide

This is OpenStack Install guide on VMWare Workstation Under Windows

1. Download VMware Workstation

I hope you are having 64 bit operation system, in this case select 64 bit VMWare Workstation

2. Create Virtual Machine

Create new virtual machine with

• 4 VCPUs
• 3Gb memory
• 20Gb disk space
• eth0 NAT Network
• eth1 Host-Only Network with Vmnet1 192.168.230.0 mask 255.255.255.0, no DHCP
• eth2 Host-Only Network with Vmnet2 192.168.231.0 mask 255.255.255.0, no DHCP

3. Install Ubuntu Server 64-bit

Select Ubuntu Server 12.0 ISO and install operation system
use openstack-essex name for OS and username/password

Change to root:

sudo bash

Change operation system name:

nano /etc/hostname

Enter openstack-essex and save

Change hosts file:

nano /etc/hosts

Enter 192.168.230.1 openstack-essex

Change network interfaces:

nano /etc/network/interfaces

Insert text

The loopback network interface

auto lo iface lo inet loopback

#Primary interface NAT interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp

#public interface � The API village auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.230.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.230.0 broadcast 192.168.230.255

#Private Vlan Land of Compute Nodes auto eth2 iface eth2 inet manual up ifconfig eth2 up

Restart the operation system

shutdown -r now

Check from Windows that VM is accessible by eth1

cmd
ping 192.168.230.1

In the Virtual Machine console check NAT interface

ping google.com

4. Update Ubuntu Openstack-Essex

Update Ubuntu and install SSH

sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install ssh ntp

Connect through Putty by eth0 to the Virtual Machine
Use UTF-8 encoding

Change NTP settings:

nano /etc/ntp.conf

Insert on top:

server ntp.ubuntu.com iburst server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

Restart NTP service

service ntp restart
ntptime

5.Install packages

apt-get install tgt
apt-get install open-iscsi open-iscsi-utils
apt-get install bridge-utils

Retart networking

/etc/init.d/networking restart

Install more packages

apt-get install rabbitmq-server memcached python-memcache
apt-get install kvm libvirt-bin
apt-get install -y mysql-server python-mysqldb

Create Databases:

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE keystone;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON keystone.* TO 'keystone'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openstack'; 
CREATE DATABASE nova;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nova.* TO 'nova'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openstack';
CREATE DATABASE glance;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glance.* TO 'glance'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openstack';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;

Check connection to database:

mysql -u nova -p nova
mysql -u glance -p glance

Enter: ‘openstack’ password

Change bing address of the mysql

nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

/*from bind-address = 127.0.0.1 /*to bind-address = 0.0.0.0

Restart mysql service

service mysql restart

6.Install Keystone

Install keystone packages

apt-get install keystone python-keystone python-keystoneclient

Change keystone settings

nano /etc/keystone/keystone.conf

[DEFAULT] admin_token = TOKEN123

[sql] connection = mysql://keystone:openstack@localhost/keystone min_pool_size = 5 max_pool_size = 10 pool_timeout = 200 idle_timeout = 200

Restart Keystone service

service keystone restart
keystone-manage db_sync

Download keystone initialization script

wget https://github.com/downloads/nerdalert/Openstack-Essex-install-config-files/keystone.sh
chmod +x keystone.sh

Change token in script

nano keystone.sh

Change export SERVICE_TOKEN=�openstack� to export SERVICE_TOKEN=�TOKEN123�

Run keystone script

./keystone.sh
echo $?

Should return 0 if success

Restart Keystone service

service keystone restart

7.Install Glance

Install packages

sudo bash
apt-get install glance glance-api glance-client glance-common glance-registry python-glance

Change ~/.bashrc

nano ~/.bashrc

Insert text:

export SERVICE_TOKEN=TOKEN123 export OS_TENANT_NAME=admin export OS_USERNAME=admin export OS_PASSWORD=openstack export OS_AUTH_URL="http://localhost:5000/v2.0/" export SERVICE_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:35357/v2.0

Restart bash and check exports

bash
export

Change ini files for Glance

nano /etc/glance/glance-registry-paste.ini
nano /etc/glance/glance-api-paste.ini

Chage properties in bottom

admin_tenant_name = admin admin_user = admin admin_password = openstack

Change mysql connection string for Glance

nano /etc/glance/glance-registry.conf

sql_connection = mysql://glance:openstack@localhost/glance

Add in bottom keystone reference

nano /etc/glance/glance-registry.conf
nano /etc/glance/glance-api.conf

[paste_deploy] flavor = keystone

Restart Glance

service glance-api restart
service glance-registry restart
glance-manage version_control 0
glance-manage db_sync
service glance-api restart
service glance-registry restart

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