Tunables for Dell R630s for use when deploying OVS+DPDK [terminal] OSP 10/11 DPDK Tunables # R630 NUMA locality - CPUs node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 # node 1 cpus: 1 3 5 7 … Continue reading RHEL OSP 10/11 – OVS+DPDK Tunables
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OpenStack: Configuring SR-IOV in RHEL OSP 8
Introduction This article documents the configuration used to configure SR-IOV in OSP 8/Liberty on Dell hardware Compute Node Configuration This section will outline the changes needed to configure SR-IOV on each Compute Node. Bios Configuration on Dell Compute Nodes First, you will need to ssh to the drac of each Compute Node. Then, type the … Continue reading OpenStack: Configuring SR-IOV in RHEL OSP 8
Mapping Virtual Networks with plotnetcfg
Plotnetcfg is a Linux utility that you can use to scan the networking configuration on a server and output the configuration hierarchy to a file. Plotnetcfg is most useful when troubleshooting complex virtual networks with all sorts of bonds and bridges, the likes of which you will find on KVM nodes, or OpenStack Controller nodes. You … Continue reading Mapping Virtual Networks with plotnetcfg
OpenStack Ironic Troubleshooting – Neutron Port in Use
Ran into issues with a deploy via RHEL OSP director, which caused our heat stack scale compute scale-out to fail. We corrected the issue, and then attempted our deploy again. This time around, we were able to scale out by several compute nodes. However, several nodes failed to deploy properly. After trudging through the logs … Continue reading OpenStack Ironic Troubleshooting – Neutron Port in Use
Red Hat Openstack & Big Cloud Fabric Introduction
Big Cloud Fabric, is a SDN solution from Big Switch Networks, designed to integrate into OpenStack (or VMware). Via OpenStack, BCF (Big Cloud Fabric) integrates directly into OpenStack Neutron by way of a plugin. BCF supports L2/L3 networking and L4-7 insertion. BCF runs on whitebox, or brightbox hardware. Below are a couple of videos that … Continue reading Red Hat Openstack & Big Cloud Fabric Introduction
OpenStack Post Install Validation Checklist
Below is a "Post Install Validation Checklist" that I am working on for validating an OpenStack Deployment. This is a work in progress and is sure to be missing some items. I plan to attempt to treat this post as a live document an update as I find new items to add to the checklist