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Openstack's Compute is a component that can be used to host and manage systems

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Cloud-init unable to retrieve metadata

I set up OpenStack with Puppet, and it's working great for the most part, but I've come across a rather pernicious issue: my Ubuntu guests (and likely others) are unable to retrieve metadata during boot. I spun up a Cirros instance to run a couple…
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What is the best way to repair a situation where the nova database contains an attachment, but cinder doesn't?

In our OpenStack cloud there are a server with server_id and a volume with . We are in a situation where there is a volume that appears to be attached from the perspective of Nova, but not from the perspective of Cinder. There is a record…
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How to provision a baremetal kubernetes cluster using a magnum with only one vlan?

There does not seem to be a guide that follows through on how to deploy a baremetal Kubernetes cluster using magnum. I got to the point of having the baremetal servers turn on and initiate the pxe request, however, the dnsmasq server does not…
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Openstack: How to make a VM to autostart

I have deployed Openstack queens for testing purposes. nova --version 14.2.0 I noticed that when I reboot a compute host, all VMs running on it turn into SHUTOFF state. I tried to change this behaviour by editing flavor metadata. I have added…
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nova conductor and scheduler not starting

Another question which I think is related to my previous question: When I do: nova service-list nova-conductor and scheduler seems to be enabled, but status is down. How can I start these services.? I tried: service nova-compute restart Redirecting…
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Does Open-stack supports heterogeneous servers as infrastructure

My company uses Apache cloud stack, but we are planing on upgrading our on premise cluster, and change our IAAS from Cloud-Stack to Open-stack my question is, can we use different servers generations, CPUs. I found services online that offer…
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Bootstraping Openstack instances using sql injection?

I have been tasked with migrating multiple VMware virtual machines to Openstack without rebooting them. We currently use the VMwareVCDriver to allow Openstack to manage the virtual machines. The issue I'm facing is getting Openstack to recognize…
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openstack: can't launch instance, multiple errors

I'm working with Openstack Mitaka, at the point to try launch an instance. When creating the instance it hangs in ERROR-state , just after built. I collected the errors from the logs, but so far I don't have a clue where to start. #…
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Visibility of VM in DevStack

I just configured my DevStack environment on a VM with IP 192.168.249.1. I would like that instance to generate VMs that are reachable within my private company network. Thus, I configured DevStack to generate IPs from them in the…
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Alternative ways to detect hung OpenStack/Linux services?

I have noticed on some of my linux servers that a linux service will be hung. The only way I know that it is hung is operations that rely on the service fails and when I restart the service it fails to stop but it starts fine. If I do service…
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Doubts about OpenStack nova and swap files

I have some doubts about the qcow2 swap files created by nova when launching instances. I've launched two instances with respectively 1G and 8G of swap memory. So, I verified that four disks where created in the _bare dir: $ ls -lh…
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Is it possible to manage group of vms in openstack as a single instance?

I am reviewing openstack technology as a possible solution for creating sandboxes. What I am going to do is to create instances that contains several vms connected within virtual network. There will be several instances per one host. I researched…
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How to source admin credentials to gain access to admin-only CLI commands in Openstack's Nova?

According to this documentation the admin credentials need to be sourced as follows: [vagrant@localhost ~]$ source admin-openrc.sh -bash: admin-openrc.sh: No such file or directory The suspicion is that this is required to run the following…
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Nova Compute State "down"

I am doing a live migration test in an OpenStack cluster. (Mitaka). I have 3 VMs deployed on 2 compute hosts. The nova-compute state is UP when I start the cluster. But after sometime the although the status is Enabled the state is down because of…
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Start instances from specific subnet

we have a network with two subnets (subnet1, subnet2). However when instances are launched they receive IP only one from subnet1 (probably until it has no more IPs to offer) Do you know the rule on which a subnet is selected, and how we can…
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