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Deployment Guide
  1. About This Guide
  2. I Architecture and Requirements
    1. 1 The SUSE OpenStack Cloud Architecture
    2. 2 Considerations and Requirements
  3. II Setting Up the Administration Server
    1. 3 Installing the Administration Server
    2. 4 Installing and Setting Up an SMT Server on the Administration Server (Optional)
    3. 5 Software Repository Setup
    4. 6 Service Configuration: Administration Server Network Configuration
    5. 7 Crowbar Setup
  4. III Setting Up OpenStack Nodes and Services
    1. 8 The Crowbar Web Interface
    2. 9 Installing the OpenStack Nodes
    3. 10 Deploying the OpenStack Services
  5. IV Maintenance and Support
    1. 11 SUSE OpenStack Cloud Maintenance
    2. 12 Troubleshooting and Support
  6. A Log Files
  7. B Repository Locations
  8. C Roles and Services in SUSE OpenStack Cloud
  9. D The Network Barclamp Template File
  10. E Configuring Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
  11. F Setting up a Netboot Environment for Microsoft* Windows
  12. G VMware vSphere Installation Instructions
  13. H Using Cisco Nexus Switches with Neutron
  14. I Crowbar Batch
  15. J Recovering Clusters to a Healthy State
  16. K Documentation Updates
  17. Terminology
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SUSE® OpenStack Cloud is an open source software solution that provides the fundamental capabilities to deploy and manage a cloud infrastructure based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. SUSE OpenStack Cloud is powered by OpenStack, the leading community-driven, open source cloud infrastructure project. It seamlessly manages and provisions workloads across a heterogeneous cloud environment in a secure, compliant, and fully-supported manner. The product tightly integrates with other SUSE technologies and with the SUSE maintenance and support infrastructure.

In SUSE OpenStack Cloud, there are several high-level user roles (or viewpoints) that we need to discriminate:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Operator

Installs and deploys SUSE OpenStack Cloud, starting with bare-metal, then installing the operating system and the OpenStack components. For detailed information about the operator's tasks and how to solve them, refer to SUSE OpenStack Cloud Deployment Guide.

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Administrator

Manages projects, users, images, flavors, and quotas within SUSE OpenStack Cloud. For detailed information about the administrator's tasks and how to solve them, refer to the OpenStack Admin User Guide and the SUSE OpenStack Cloud Supplement to Admin User Guide and End User Guide.

SUSE OpenStack Cloud User

End user who launches and manages instances, can create snapshots, and use volumes for persistent storage within SUSE OpenStack Cloud. For detailed information about the user's tasks and how to solve them, refer to OpenStack End User Guide and the SUSE OpenStack Cloud Supplement to Admin User Guide and End User Guide.

This guide provides cloud operators with the information needed to deploy and maintain SUSE OpenStack Cloud administrative units, the Administration Server, the Control Nodes, and the Compute and Storage Nodes. The Administration Server provides all services needed to manage and deploy all other nodes in the cloud. The Control Node hosts all OpenStack services needed to operate virtual machines deployed on the Compute Nodes in the SUSE OpenStack Cloud. Each virtual machine (instance) started in the cloud will be hosted on one of the Compute Nodes. Object storage is managed by the Storage Nodes.

Many chapters in this manual contain links to additional documentation resources. These include additional documentation that is available on the system and documentation available on the Internet.

For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest documentation updates, refer to http://www.suse.com/documentation.

1 Available Documentation

The following manuals are available for this product:

Supplement to Admin User Guide and End User Guide

Gives an introduction to the SUSE® OpenStack Cloud architecture, lists the requirements, and describes how to set up, deploy, and maintain the individual components. Also contains information about troubleshooting, support, and a glossary listing the most important terms and concepts for SUSE OpenStack Cloud.

Admin User Guide

Guides you through management of projects and users, images, flavors, quotas, and networks. Also describes how to migrate instances.

To complete these tasks, either use the graphical Web interface (based on OpenStack Dashboard, code name Horizon) or the OpenStack command line clients.

End User Guide

Describes how to manage images, instances, networks, volumes, and track usage.

To complete these tasks, either use the graphical Web interface (based on OpenStack Dashboard, code name Horizon) or the OpenStack command line clients.

Supplement to Admin User Guide and End User Guide

A supplement to the SUSE OpenStack Cloud Admin User Guide and SUSE OpenStack Cloud End User Guide. It contains additional information for admin users and end users guides that is specific to SUSE OpenStack Cloud.

HTML versions of the product manuals can be found in the installed system under /usr/share/doc/manual. Additionally, you can access the product-specific manuals and the upstream documentation from the Help links in the graphical Web interfaces. Find the latest documentation updates at http://www.suse.com/documentation where you can download the manuals for your product in multiple formats.

2 Feedback

Several feedback channels are available:

Services and Support Options

For services and support options available for your product, refer to http://www.suse.com/support/.

User Comments/Bug Reports

We want to hear your comments about and suggestions for this manual and the other documentation included with this product. If you are reading the HTML version of this guide, use the Comments feature at the bottom of each page in the online documentation at http://www.suse.com/documentation/.

If you are reading the single-page HTML version of this guide, you can use the Report Bug link next to each section to open a bug report at https://bugzilla.suse.com/. A user account is needed for this.

Mail

For feedback on the documentation of this product, you can also send a mail to doc-team@suse.de. Make sure to include the document title, the product version, and the publication date of the documentation. To report errors or suggest enhancements, provide a concise description of the problem and refer to the respective section number and page (or URL).

3 Documentation Conventions

The following notices and typographical conventions are used in this documentation:

Warning
Warning

Vital information you must be aware of before proceeding. Warns you about security issues, potential loss of data, damage to hardware, or physical hazards.

Important
Important

Important information you should be aware of before proceeding.

Note
Note

Additional information, for example about differences in software versions.

Tip
Tip

Helpful information, like a guideline or a piece of practical advice. 

  • tux > command

    Commands than can be run by any user, including the root user. 

  • root # command

    Commands that must be run with root privileges. Often you can also prefix these commands with the sudo command to run them.

  • /etc/passwd: directory names and file names

  • PLACEHOLDER: replace PLACEHOLDER with the actual value

  • PATH: the environment variable PATH

  • ls, --help: commands, options, and parameters

  • user: users or groups

  • Alt, Alt–F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as on a keyboard

  • File, File › Save As: menu items, buttons

  • Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a chapter in another manual.

4 About the Making of This Manual

This documentation is written in SUSEDoc, a subset of DocBook 5. The XML source files were validated by jing, processed by xsltproc, and converted into XSL-FO using a customized version of Norman Walsh's stylesheets. The final PDF is formatted through FOP from Apache Software Foundation. The open source tools and the environment used to build this documentation are provided by the DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite (DAPS). The project's home page can be found at https://github.com/openSUSE/daps.

The XML source code of this documentation can be found at https://github.com/SUSE/doc-cloud.

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