Boston open stack meetup hyper v in openstack

Essex based Nova-Compute

Intro

Peter Pouliot, CISSP

PPouliot@microsoft.com

IRC/Skype:primeminsterp

Sr. Engineer in Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center.

Summit Revisted: What?

Microsoft is working to restore and

enhance Hyper-V support in OpenStack

Microsoft is providing dedicated

resources to support ongoing

OpenStack on Hyper-V efforts

Current development efforts focused on

Hyper-V features with Essex and

beyond

Summit Revisted: Why Hyper-V? One of the founding principles of

OpenStack was Hypervisor Ubiquity

Allows enterprises to utilize existing infrastructure, tools, and in-house expertise they already have.

Customer and partner demand is there

It provides an enterprise OS running a private cloud that is interoperable and expandable into public cloud spaces

Allows for potential System Center Integration points

What we’ve been working on?

Python32 based service

Start/Stop VMs

Initial Glance integration

Resize/Rescue/Pause/Suspend Resume/Host-Guest Info Reporting coming soon

Silent installer

Installation instructions

Jenkins infrastructure and CI Testing

Test integration planning

Ongoing feature planning for Folsom and beyond.

Improving for Folsom

Additional VM functions

Live Migrations

Volume support

Snapshots

Support Nova-network on Hyper-V compute node

Non-flat Networking

image conversion

And more…

Windows Server “2012” is coming…

Lots of additional opportunities to add and improve for Folsom!

Let’s Recap

This is officially a Microsoft sponsored Project!!

Dedicated MS staff to support OpenStack/Hyper-V efforts

Dedicated Hardware/Network resources

Initial set of features improved over previous Hyper-V functionality

CI build out begining

Test integration planning finalizing.

Post Summit additions

Nova branch being created to ease our integration into Folsom.

Phase one planning is finished. Infrastructure deployment to support CI effort beginning.

Weekly IRC meetings: Tuesdays 9:00am EST

Freenode: #openstack-hyper-v

First community patch submitted to enable “enlighted” devices for VMs. https://github.com/pnavarro/nova/commit/6bfb07

39323c846740c49c51292b1d06101d10eb

Join the Movement!

Lets make Hyper-V a premiere hypervisor in Folsom

Developers willing to work on extending the Hyper-V driver for nova-compute

Developers willing to work on at least porting nova-network to Windows Server “8”

Users willing to beta test new code, prioritize feature requests, and contribute overall feedback

With a little momentum this can take off!

Where to get it?

http://wiki.openstack.org/Hyper-V

Will be updated as new installer and

configuration information is available

All other resources will stem from this

one page for unity

How to get involved?

Find one of us to chat if you have

questions

Check the wiki for links to

etherpad/forums etc. for discussion

Email us:

jordan@openstack.org

ppouliot@microsoft.com