This post is going to walk you through a full HA Network isolated Red Hat OpenStack installation with 3 Controllers, 3 Compute and 3 Ceph OSD nodes in only 16 simple steps. To be successful with this deployment you will have to follow this network diagram (create the trunks and vlans on the switch) and…
Part 2 of the blog series will show you how you can register the nodes to your OSP director via command line create flavors and deploy a simple non HA OpenStack environment. 1. To register the blades I created the following json file. Please keep in mind that if you use hp blades with ilo2…
As you might know Red Hat released a new version of the OpenStack (Kilo) installer based on tripleO and Ironic. One of the reason why Red Hat went with tripleO and ironic is that you will be able to extend and upgrade an existing OSP 7 environment. Part 1 of the blog series is about…
I am working with old equipment in my home lab which sometimes brings more complexity into my deployments. In case of tripleO and ironic my old hardware was actually beneficial to learn how ironic and triple0 works. I am working with BL465c G6 and SB40c which have a e200/p400 controller. RHEL7.x does not recognize these…