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Configuration file format
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1. Block Storage
Introduction to the Block Storage service
cinder.conf configuration file
Volume drivers
Ceph RADOS Block Device (RBD)
RADOS
Ways to store, use, and expose data
Driver options
Coraid AoE driver configuration
Terminology
Requirements
Overview
Install the Coraid AoE driver
Create a storage profile
Create a storage repository and get the FQRN
Configure options in the cinder.conf file
Create and associate a volume type
Dell EqualLogic volume driver
EMC VNX direct driver
System requirements
Supported operations
Set up the VNX direct driver
Install NaviSecCLI
Register with VNX
cinder.conf configuration file
Volume type support
EMC SMI-S iSCSI and FC drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Set up the SMI-S drivers
Install the python-pywbem package
Set up SMI-S
Register with VNX for the iSCSI driver
Register with VNX for the FC driver
Create a masking view on VMAX
cinder.conf configuration file
cinder_emc_config.xml configuration file
Volume type support
GlusterFS driver
HDS HUS iSCSI driver
System requirements
Supported operations
Configuration
HUS setup
Single back-end
Multi back-end
Type extra specs: volume_backend and volume type
Non differentiated deployment of HUS arrays
HDS iSCSI volume driver configuration options
HP 3PAR Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
System requirements
Supported operations
Enable the HP 3PAR Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers
HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual driver
HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual REST driver standard mode
System requirements
Supported operations
Enable the HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual iSCSI driver in standard mode
HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual CLIQ driver legacy mode
Supported operations
Enable the HP LeftHand/StoreVirtual iSCSI driver in legacy mode
HP MSA Fibre Channel driver
Huawei storage driver
Supported operations
Configure Block Storage nodes
Configuration file details
IBM XIV/DS8K volume driver
IBM GPFS volume driver
How the GPFS driver works
Enable the GPFS driver
Volume creation options
Example: Volume creation options
Operational notes for GPFS driver
Snapshots and clones
IBM Storwize family and SVC volume driver
Configure the Storwize family and SVC system
Network configuration
iSCSI CHAP authentication
Configure storage pools
Configure user authentication for the driver
Create a SSH key pair with OpenSSH
Configure the Storwize family and SVC driver
Enable the Storwize family and SVC driver
Storwize family and SVC driver options in cinder.conf
Placement with volume types
Configure per-volume creation options
Example: Volume types
Operational notes for the Storwize family and SVC driver
Migrate volumes
Extend volumes
Snapshots and clones
Volume retype
LVM
NetApp unified driver
NetApp clustered Data ONTAP storage family
NetApp iSCSI configuration for clustered Data ONTAP
Configuration options for clustered Data ONTAP family with iSCSI protocol
NetApp NFS configuration for clustered Data ONTAP
Configuration options for the clustered Data ONTAP family with NFS protocol
NetApp NFS Copy Offload client
NetApp-supported extra specs for clustered Data ONTAP
NetApp Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode storage family
NetApp iSCSI configuration for Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
Configuration options for the Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode storage family with iSCSI protocol
NetApp NFS configuration for Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
Configuration options for the Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode family with NFS protocol
NetApp E-Series storage family
NetApp iSCSI configuration for E-Series
Configuration options for E-Series storage family with iSCSI protocol
Upgrading prior NetApp drivers to the NetApp unified driver
Upgraded NetApp drivers
Driver upgrade configuration
Deprecated NetApp drivers
Nexenta drivers
Nexenta iSCSI driver
Enable the Nexenta iSCSI driver and related options
Nexenta NFS driver
Enable the Nexenta NFS driver and related options
NFS driver
How the NFS driver works
Enable the NFS driver and related options
How to use the NFS driver
NFS driver notes
SolidFire
VMware VMDK driver
Functional context
Configuration
VMDK disk type
Clone type
Use vCenter storage policies to specify back-end data stores
Supported operations
Storage policy-based configuration in vCenter
Prerequisites
Create storage policies in vCenter
Data store selection
Windows
XenAPINFS
Requirements
Configuration patterns
Configuration options
XenAPI Storage Manager volume driver
Design and operation
Definitions
Operation
Configure XenAPI Storage Manager
Prerequisites
Configuration
Create and access the volumes from VMs
Zadara
Sheepdog driver
Backup drivers
Ceph backup driver
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup driver
Swift backup driver
Block Storage sample configuration files
cinder.conf
api-paste.ini
policy.json
rootwrap.conf
Log files used by Block Storage
Fibre Channel Zone Manager
Configure Block Storage to use Fibre Channel Zone Manager
Brocade Fibre Channel Zone Driver
System requirements
Additional options
New, updated and deprecated options for cinder
2. Compute
Overview of nova.conf
Sections
Configure logging
Configure authentication and authorization
Configure resize
KVM
XenServer
Database configuration
Configure the Oslo RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
Configure the Compute API
Configure Compute API password handling
Configure Compute API rate limiting
Define limits
Default limits
Configure and change limits
Configuration reference
Configure the EC2 API
Fibre Channel support in Compute
KVM host requirements
Install required packages
Hypervisors
Hypervisor configuration basics
KVM
Enable KVM
Intel-based processors
AMD-based processors
Specify the CPU model of KVM guests
Host model (default for KVM & QEMU)
Host pass through
Custom
None (default for all libvirt-driven hypervisors other than KVM & QEMU)
Guest agent support
KVM performance tweaks
Troubleshoot KVM
QEMU
Tips and fixes for QEMU on RHEL
Xen, XenAPI, XenServer, and XCP
Xen terminology
Privileged and unprivileged domains
Paravirtualized versus hardware virtualized domains
XenAPI Deployment Architecture
XenAPI pools
Further reading
Install XenServer and XCP
Post-installation steps
Install the XenAPI plug-ins
Manually install the plug-in
Package a XenServer supplemental pack
Prepare for AMI type images
Modify Dom0 for resize/migration support
Xen boot from ISO
Xen configuration reference
Agent
Firewall
VNC proxy address
Storage
Xen configuration reference
LXC (Linux containers)
VMware vSphere
Introduction
High-level architecture
Configuration overview
Prerequisites and limitations
VMware vCenter driver
VMwareVCDriver configuration options
Images with VMware vSphere
Supported image types
Convert and load images
Tag VMware images
Optimize images
Image handling
Networking with VMware vSphere
Volumes with VMware vSphere
vSphere 5.0 and earlier additional set up
VMware ESX driver
VMwareESXDriver configuration options
Requirements and limitations
Configuration reference
Hyper-V virtualization platform
Hyper-V configuration
Configure NTP
Configure Hyper-V virtual switching
Enable iSCSI initiator service
Configure shared nothing live migration
Python Requirements
Install Nova-compute
Configure Nova.conf
Prepare images for use with Hyper-V
Run Compute with Hyper-V
Troubleshoot Hyper-V configuration
Baremetal driver
Scheduling
Filter scheduler
Filters
AggregateCoreFilter
AggregateImagePropertiesIsolation
AggregateInstanceExtraSpecsFilter
AggregateMultiTenancyIsolation
AggregateRamFilter
AllHostsFilter
AvailabilityZoneFilter
ComputeCapabilitiesFilter
ComputeFilter
CoreFilter
DifferentHostFilter
DiskFilter
GroupAffinityFilter
GroupAntiAffinityFilter
ImagePropertiesFilter
IsolatedHostsFilter
JsonFilter
RamFilter
RetryFilter
SameHostFilter
ServerGroupAffinityFilter
ServerGroupAntiAffinityFilter
SimpleCIDRAffinityFilter
Weights
Chance scheduler
Host aggregates
Command-line interface
Configure scheduler to support host aggregates
Example: Specify compute hosts with SSDs
XenServer hypervisor pools to support live migration
Configuration reference
Cells
Cell configuration options
Configure the API (top-level) cell
Configure the child cells
Configure the database in each cell
Cell scheduling configuration
Optional cell configuration
Conductor
Example nova.conf configuration files
Small, private cloud
KVM, Flat, MySQL, and Glance, OpenStack or EC2 API
XenServer, Flat networking, MySQL, and Glance, OpenStack API
Compute log files
Compute sample configuration files
nova.conf - configuration options
Additional sample configuration files
api-paste.ini
policy.json
rootwrap.conf
New, updated and deprecated options for nova
3. Dashboard
Configure the dashboard
Configure the dashboard for HTTP
Configure the dashboard for HTTPS
Change the size of the dashboard VNC window
Customize the dashboard
Additional sample configuration files
keystone_policy.json
nova_policy.json
Log files used by the dashboard
4. Database Service
Configure the database
Configure the RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMq
Configure messaging
5. Identity service
Identity service configuration file
Identity service sample configuration files
keystone.conf
keystone-paste.ini
logging.conf
policy.json
New, updated and deprecated options for keystone
6. Image Service
Configure the API
Configure the RPC messaging system
Support for ISO images
Configuring Backends
Configure vCenter data stores for the Image Service back end
Configure vCenter data stores for the back end
Image Service sample configuration files
glance-api.conf
glance-registry.conf
glance-api-paste.ini
glance-registry-paste.ini
glance-scrubber.conf
policy.json
New, updated and deprecated options for glance
7. Networking
Networking configuration options
Networking plug-ins
BigSwitch configuration options
Brocade configuration options
CISCO configuration options
CloudBase Hyper-V Agent configuration options
Embrane configuration options
IBM SDN-VE configuration options
Linux bridge Agent configuration options
Mellanox configuration options
Meta Plug-in configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Flat Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) GRE Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) VLAN Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) VXLAN Type configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Arista Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) BigSwitch Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Brocade Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Cisco Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Mellanox Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) OpenDaylight Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) OpenFlow Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) L2 Population Mechanism configuration options
Modular Layer 2 (ml2) Tail-f NCS Mechanism configuration options
MidoNet configuration options
NEC configuration options
Nuage configuration options
One Convergence NVSD configuration options
VMware NSX configuration options
Open vSwitch Agent configuration options
PLUMgrid configuration options
Ryu configuration options
Configure the Oslo RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
Agent
API
Token authentication
CADF
Compute
Database
DHCP agent
Embrane LBaaS driver
Firewall-as-a-Service driver
L3 agent
Loadbalancer-as-a-Service agent
Logging
Metadata Agent
Metering Agent
Policy
Quotas
Rootwrap
Scheduler
Security Groups
SSL
Testing
vArmour Firewall-as-a-Service driver
VPN
WSGI
Log files used by Networking
Networking sample configuration files
neutron.conf
api-paste.ini
policy.json
rootwrap.conf
Configuration files for plug-in agents
dhcp_agent.ini
l3_agent.ini
lbaas_agent.ini
metadata_agent.ini
New, updated and deprecated options for neutron
8. Object Storage
Introduction to Object Storage
Object Storage general service configuration
Object server configuration
Sample object server configuration file
Object expirer configuration
Sample object expirer configuration file
Container server configuration
Sample container server configuration file
Account server configuration
Sample account server configuration file
Proxy server configuration
Sample proxy server configuration file
Proxy server memcache configuration
Rsyncd configuration
Configure Object Storage features
Object Storage zones
Rackspace zone recommendations
RAID controller configuration
Throttle resources through rate limits
Configure rate limiting
Health check
Domain remap
CNAME lookup
Temporary URL
Name check filter
Constraints
Cluster health
Static Large Object (SLO) support
Container quotas
Account quotas
Bulk delete
Configure Object Storage with the S3 API
Drive audit
Form post
Static web sites
Cross-origin resource sharing
Endpoint listing middleware
9. Orchestration
Configure APIs
Configure Clients
Configure the RPC messaging system
Configure RabbitMQ
Configure Qpid
Configure ZeroMQ
Configure messaging
New, updated and deprecated options for heat
10. Telemetry
Telemetry sample configuration files
ceilometer.conf
event_definitions.yaml
pipeline.yaml
policy.json
New, updated and deprecated options for ceilometer
A. Firewalls and default ports
B. Community support
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