A fully automated and unattended setup of Hyper-V Nova compute can be performed in a standard way by passing the proper parameter to msiexec.exe.
Features
| Feature | Install by default | Notes |
| HyperVNovaCompute | True | |
| NeutronHyperVAgent | True | Installs the Neutron Hyper-V Agent and enables Neutron networking in Nova Compute |
| CeilometerComputeAgent | False | Enables the Ceilometer agents along with the related metrics collection in Nova and Neutron |
| LiveMigration | False* | Enables live migration in Hyper-V |
| iSCSISWInitiator | False* | Enables MS iSCSI Initiator |
| FreeRDP | True |
* Defaults to the current status of the feature in the system.
Properties
| Property | Default Value | Notes |
| INSTALLDIR | %ProgramFiles% (x86)Cloudbase SolutionsOpenStack | |
| GLANCEHOST | ||
| GLANCEPORT | 9292 | |
| RPCBACKEND | RabbitMQ | RabbitMQ or ApacheQpid |
| RPCBACKENDHOST | ||
| RPCBACKENDPORT | 5672 | |
| RPCBACKENDUSER | guest | |
| RPCBACKENDPASSWORD | ||
| INSTANCESPATH | ||
| ADDVSWITCH |
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| VSWITCHNAME | Name of an existing external vswitch(ADDVSWITCH=0) | |
| NEWVSWITCHNAME | Name of a new external vswitch to be created by the installer(ADDVSWITCH=1) | |
| VSWITCHNETADAPTER | Physical adapter to be bridged with the new vswitch(ADDVSWITCH=1) | |
| LIMITCPUFEATURES | Set to 1 for supporting live migration between hosts with heterogeneous CPUs | |
| USECOWIMAGES | 1 | Set the property to an empty string “” to set the parameter to false |
| FORCECONFIGDRIVE | Set to 1 to force the creation of a config drive | |
| CONFIGDRIVEINJECTPASSWORD | Set to 1 to inject the admin password in the config drive | |
| DYNAMICMEMORYRATIO | 1.0 | |
| ENABLELOGGING | Set to 1 to enable logging | |
| LOGDIR | C:OpenStackLog | |
| VERBOSELOGGING | Set to 1 to enable verbose logging | |
| NOVACOMPUTESERVICEUSER | LocalSystem | nova-compute service username. Live migration requires a domain user. Format: DOMAINusername |
| NOVACOMPUTESERVICEPASSWORD | Password for the username specificed with NOVACOMPUTESERVICEUSER, blank for LocalSystem | |
| MIGRNETWORKSANY | * | Set to 1 to enable Live Migration from any host |
| MAXACTIVEVSMIGR | * | Max. concurrent virtual machine live migrations allowed |
| MAXACTIVESTORAGEMIGR | * | Max. concurrent storage live migrations allowed |
| LIVEMIGRAUTHTYPE | * |
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| MIGRNETWORKS | * | Networks allowed as Live Migration sources, expressed as a comma separated list in the form: IP/subnetlength, e.g.: 192.168.0.0/24,172.16.20.0/16,10.10.10.1/32 |
| NEUTRONURL | http://neutronhost:9696 | |
| NEUTRONADMINTENANTNAME | service | |
| NEUTRONADMINUSERNAME | neutron | |
| NEUTRONADMINPASSWORD | ||
| NEUTRONADMINAUTHURL | http://keystonehost:35357/v2.0 | |
| CEILOMETERADMINTENANTNAME | service | |
| CEILOMETERADMINUSERNAME | ceilometer | |
| CEILOMETERADMINPASSWORD | ||
| CEILOMETERADMINAUTHURL | http://keystonehost:35357/v2.0 | |
| CEILOMETERMETERINGSECRET |
Example
msiexec /i HyperVNovaCompute.msi /qn /l*v log.txt ADDLOCAL=HyperVNovaCompute,NeutronHyperVAgent,iSCSISWInitiator,FreeRDP INSTALLDIR=C:OpenStackNova GLANCEHOST=glancehost GLANCEPORT=9292 RPCBACKEND=RabbitMQ RPCBACKENDHOST=rabbithost RPCBACKENDPORT=5672 RPCBACKENDPASSWORD=12345678 INSTANCESPATH=C:HyperV ADDVSWITCH=0 VSWITCHNAME=external1 LIMITCPUFEATURES=”” USECOWIMAGES=1 LOGDIR=C:log ENABLELOGGING=1 VERBOSELOGGING=1 NEUTRONURL=http://neutronhost:9696 NEUTRONADMINTENANTNAME=service NEUTRONADMINUSERNAME=neutron NEUTRONADMINPASSWORD=12345678 NEUTRONADMINAUTHURL=http://keystonehost:35357/v2.0
