Hyper-V Nested Virtualization for OpenStack Compute (nova)

Nested Virtualization is one of the features introduced in the newly released Windows / Hyper-V Server 2016. [1] The nova Hyper-V Driver can enable nested virtualization for an instance if the CPU feature "vmx" is requested via flavor extra_specs "hw:cpu_features". Regarding Hyper-V nested virtualization, there ar...

Add Windows Support for Monasca

The purpose of this blueprint is to add the necessary changes needed in order to have monasca-agent running on Windows. In order to achieve this, there are a couple of things that needs to be done: * Replace monasca_agent.collector.virt.hyperv.utilsv2 and its usage with os_win utils and add os-win as a dependency ...

Expose host capabilities for OpenStack Compute (nova)

Ensuring proper scheduling can be difficult task, especially when the instances require several host features or capabilities. This would require the administrators to know what features are available for a certain hypervisor version and / or creating quite a few host aggregates, which can become tedious.

Adds Windows / Hyper-V common library for oslo-incubator

Hyper-V is involved in many of OpenStack components (nova, neutron, cinder, ceilometer, etc.) and will be involved with other components in the future. A common library can be created in order to reduce the code duplication between all these components (utils classes, which interacts directly with Hyper-V through W...

Hyper-V Cluster for OpenStack Compute (nova)

Hyper-V Clustering has been introduced since Windows / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and it introduced several benefits such as highly available VMs, better performance, faster live migrations and other features. [1][2][3] Currently, there is no support for Hyper-V Clusters in Openstack. This blueprint is addressing this ...