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
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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
Stack_Stat: A Simple OpenStack Service Checking Function
Looking for a simple way to see what OpenStack services are enabled, running, or dead on an OpenStack Compute or Controller Node, and also want to see when these services were started? Then check out this simple function that you can add to root's .bashrc. Note that I do not take credit for writing this … Continue reading Stack_Stat: A Simple OpenStack Service Checking Function