OpenStack™ Hyper-V Compute Driver

Bringing OpenStack and Hyper-V Together

Overview

Microsoft Hyper-V is an amazing compute option for OpenStack. It blends perfectly well with any new or existing cloud deployment, interoperating with other hypervisors like KVM, VMware vSphere / ESXi or XenServer.

Windows instances work out of the box on Hyper-V, without the need of external drivers and with the benefits of Microsoft support.

Hyper-V also supports Linux guests, with the Linux Integration Services (LIS) already included in the kernel of any major distribution.

Cloudbase Solutions is the leading contributor of everything Windows related in OpenStack and the downloads available on this page include all the required Nova, Neutron, Ceilometer and Open vSwitch (OVS) components, automatically configured during deployment.

Last but not least, our OpenStack compute MSI installer can be deployed in a fully automated way using Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, DSC, Windows Group Policies or any other automated configuration framework.

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Windows Hyper-V OpenStack Installer

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Features

Includes everything you need to configure a Hyper-V OpenStack compute node
Feature complete OpenStack compute experience
Integrates with any OpenStack deployment
Supports Open vSwitch and any standard SDN solution
Supports iSCSI and SMB3 OpenStack volumes
Live migration included, no need for additional components
Works on Windows Server, Hyper-V Server and Nano Server

Supported OS

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (until Kilo)

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (starting with Havana)

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2016 (starting with Kilo)

Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2019 (starting with Liberty)

Windows Server 2022 (starting with Xena)

Windows 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (Testing / Development only)

Supported OS
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (until Kilo)
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (starting with Havana)
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2016 (starting with Kilo)
Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2019 (starting with Liberty)
Windows Server 2022 (starting with Xena)
Windows 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (Testing / Development only)

Documentation

Read the latest documentation here: http://compute-hyperv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Hypervisor Support Matrix

Expand the sections below to explore the OpenStack hypervisor features support comparison, between Hyper-V, KVM, VMware vSphere / KVM and XenServer.

Please be aware that the accuracy / completeness of the following (and given the basic characteristics of a wiki) is generally evolving and given its state of flux should be considered in draft state. Please refer to respective vendor’s documentation for a more authoritative indication of support.

Data source: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html

Compute

Feature	Hyper-V	Libvirt KVM (x86)	VMware vCenter	XenServer
Attach block volume to instance	●	❌	●	●
Detach block volume from instance	●	●	●	●
Evacuate instances from a host	●	●	?	?
Guest instance status	●	●	●	●
Guest host status	●	●	●	●
Live migrate instance across hosts	●	●	❌	●
Launch instance	●	●	●	●
Stop instance CPUs	●	●	❌	●
Reboot instance	●	●	●	●
Rescue instance	●	●	●	●
Resize instance	●	●	●	●
Restore instance	●	●	●	●
Service control	●	●	●	●
Save snapshot of instance disk	●	●	●	●
Suspend instance	●	●	●	●
Shutdown instance	●	●	●	●
Resume instance CPUs	●	●	❌	●
Auto configure disk	●	❌	❌	●
Instance disk I/O limits	●	●	❌	❌
Config drive support	●	●	●	●
Remote desktop over RDP	●	❌	❌	❌
View serial console logs	●	●	●	●
Remote interactive serial console	●	●	❌	❌
Remote desktop over SPICE	❌	●	❌	❌
Remote desktop over VNC	❌	●	●	●
Block storage support	●	●	●	●
Block storage over fibre channel	❌*Comming soon	●	❌	❌
Block storage over iSCSI	●	●	●	●
CHAP authentication for iSCSI	●	●	●	●
Image storage support	●	●	●	●

Networking

Feature	Hyper-V	Libvirt KVM (x86)	VMware vCenter	XenServer
Network firewall rules	●	●	●	●
Network routing	●	●	●	●
Network security groups	●	●	●	●
Flat networking	●	●	●	●
VLAN networking	●	●	●	●
VXLAN networking	●	●	●	●
GRE networking	❌	●	●	●
NVGRE networking	●	❌	❌	❌