It is possible to use Hyper-V as a compute node within an OpenStack Deployment. The nova-compute service runs as "openstack-compute," a 32-bit service directly upon the Windows platform with the Hyper-V role enabled. The necessary Python components as well as the nova-compute service are installed directly onto the Windows platform. Windows Clustering Services are not needed for functionality within the OpenStack infrastructure. The use of the Windows Server 2012 platform is recommend for the best experience and is the platform for active development. The following Windows platforms have been tested as compute nodes: Windows Server 2008r2 Both Server and Server Core with the Hyper-V role enabled (Shared Nothing Live migration is not supported using 2008r2) Windows Server 2012 Server and Core (with the Hyper-V role enabled), and Hyper-V Server

The following sections discuss how to prepare the Windows Hyper-V node for operation as an OpenStack Compute node. Unless stated otherwise, any configuration information should work for both the Windows 2008r2 and 2012 platforms. Local Storage Considerations The Hyper-V compute node needs to have ample storage for storing the virtual machine images running on the compute nodes. You may use a single volume for all, or partition it into an OS volume and VM volume. It is up to the individual deploying to decide.

Network time services must be configured to ensure proper operation of the Hyper-V compute node. To set network time on your Hyper-V host you will need to run the following commands C:\net stop w32time C:\w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:pool.ntp.org,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL C:\net start w32time

Information regarding the Hyper-V virtual Switch can be located here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831823.aspx To quickly enable an interface to be used as a Virtual Interface the following PowerShell may be used: PS C:\$if = Get-NetIPAddress –IPAddress 192* | Get-NetIPInterface PS C:\New-VMSwitch -NetAdapterName $if.ifAlias -Name yourbridgename –AllowManagementOS $false

To prepare the Hyper-V node to be able to attach to volumes provided by cinder you must first make sure the Windows iSCSI initiator service is running and started automatically. C:\sc start MSiSCSI C:\sc config MSiSCSI start="auto"

Detailed information on the configuration of live migration can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134199.aspx The following outlines the steps of shared nothing live migration. The target hosts ensures that live migration is enabled and properly configured in Hyper-V. The target hosts checks if the image to be migrated requires a base VHD and pulls it from Glance if not already available on the target host. The source hosts ensures that live migration is enabled and properly configured in Hyper-V. The source hosts initiates a Hyper-V live migration. The source hosts communicates to the manager the outcome of the operation. The following two configuration options/flags are needed in order to support Hyper-V live migration and must be added to your nova.conf on the Hyper-V compute node: instances_shared_storage=False This needed to support "shared nothing" Hyper-V live migrations. It is used in nova/compute/manager.py limit_cpu_features=True This flag is needed to support live migration to hosts with different CPU features. This flag is checked during instance creation in order to limit the CPU features used by the VM. instances_path=DRIVELETTER:\PATH\TO\YOUR\INSTANCES Additional Requirements: Hyper-V 2012 RC or Windows Server 2012 RC with Hyper-V role enabled A Windows domain controller with the Hyper-V compute nodes as domain members The instances_path command line option/flag needs to be the same on all hosts The openstack-compute service deployed with the setup must run with domain credentials. You can set the service credentials with: C:\sc config openstack-compute obj="DOMAIN\username" password="password" How to setup live migration on Hyper-V To enable shared nothing live migration run the 3 PowerShell instructions below on each Hyper-V host: PS C:\Enable-VMMigration PS C:\Set-VMMigrationNetwork IP_ADDRESS PS C:\Set-VMHost –VirtualMachineMigrationAuthenticationTypeKerberos Please replace the IP_ADDRESS with the address of the interface which will provide the virtual switching for nova-network. Additional Reading Here's an article that clarifies the various live migration options in Hyper-V: http://ariessysadmin.blogspot.ro/2012/04/hyper-v-live-migration-of-windows.html

Python Python 2.7.3 must be installed prior to installing the OpenStack Compute Driver on the Hyper-V server. Download and then install the MSI for windows here: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.msi Install the MSI accepting the default options. The installation will put python in C:/python27. Setuptools You will require pip to install the necessary python module dependencies. The installer will install under the C:\python27 directory structure. Setuptools for Python 2.7 for Windows can be download from here: http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe Python Dependencies The following packages need to be downloaded and manually installed onto the Compute Node MySQL-python http://codegood.com/download/10/ pywin32 Download and run the installer from the following location http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20217/pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe greenlet Select the link below: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ You will need to scroll down to the greenlet section for the following file: greenlet-0.4.0.win32-py2.7.‌exe Click on the file, to initiate the download. Once the download is complete, run the installer. The following python packages need to be installed via easy_install or pip. Run the following replacing PACKAGENAME with the packages below: C:\c:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install PACKAGE_NAME amqplib anyjson distribute eventlet httplib2 iso8601 jsonschema kombu netaddr paste paste-deploy prettytable python-cinderclient python-glanceclient python-keystoneclient repoze.lru routes sqlalchemy simplejson warlock webob wmi

Using git on Windows to retrieve source Git be used to download the necessary source code. The installer to run Git on Windows can be downloaded here: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+installer+official+git Download the latest installer. Once the download is complete double click the installer and follow the prompts in the installation wizard. The default should be acceptable for the needs of the document. Once installed you may run the following to clone the Nova code. C:\git.exe clone https://github.com/openstack/nova.git

The nova.conf file must be placed in C:\etc\nova for running OpenStack on Hyper-V. Below is a sample nova.conf for Windows: [DEFAULT] verbose=true force_raw_images=false auth_strategy=keystone fake_network=true vswitch_name=openstack-br logdir=c:\openstack\ state_path=c:\openstack\ lock_path=c:\openstack\ instances_path=e:\Hyper-V\instances policy_file=C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenStack\nova\etc\nova\policy.json api_paste_config=c:\openstack\nova\etc\nova\api-paste.ini rabbit_host=IP_ADDRESS glance_api_servers=IP_ADDRESS:9292 image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService instances_shared_storage=false limit_cpu_features=true compute_driver=nova.virt.hyperv.driver.HyperVDriver volume_api_class=nova.volume.cinder.API [database] connection=mysql://nova:passwd@IP_ADDRESS/nova The following table contains a reference of all optionsfor hyper-v

Hyper-V currently supports only the VHD file format for virtual machine instances. Detailed instructions for installing virtual machines on Hyper-V can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772480.aspx Once you have successfully created a virtual machine, you can then upload the image to glance using the native glance-client: C:\glance image-create --name="VM_IMAGE_NAME" --is-public=true --container-format=bare --disk-format=vhd

To start the nova-compute service, run this command from a console in the Windows server: C:\C:\python27\python.exe c:\openstack\nova\bin\nova-compute.py

I ran the nova-manage service list command from my controller; however, I'm not seeing smiley faces for Hyper-V compute nodes, what do I do? Verify that you are synchronized with a network time source. Instructions for configuring NTP on your Hyper-V compute node are located here