How to install RedHat Openstack – Deploy Undercloud

I already covered manual installation of OpenStack and decided I will also show how to deploy RedHat Openstack – Undercloud. After you deploy undercloud, you will then have to deploy overcloud on it. I will demonstrate Undercloud part, if there is enough interest I can also do a writeup on deploying RedHat Openstack overcloud.

I have notes and guide I made for myself n overcloud deploy, but if there is interest I can make (when I have time) usable guide for everyone.

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Change KVM (libvirt) default storage path…

By default Red Hat will store your images and vm disks in the /var/lib/libvirt/images path. There is storage limit inside directory. Usually for my LABs I don’t have a need for various other storage configurations, I just need to move default path to my home directory since there is a lot of space.

Let’s begin.

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How to install VirtualBMC on Red Hat

If you wish to install something like OpenStack on Red Hat and deploy it with Director service, you will be asked for some kind of IPMI (Inteligent Platform Management Tool) so that your can control servers (bare metal) from one point, reboot and control power status of the machines you deploy to… HPE has iLO, Dell has iDRAC…

That is all well if you are deploying to bare metal, but what if you wish to control virtual machines in the same manner. You will need VirtualBMC.

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