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Xenserver Fuel Plugin User Guide

Once the Fuel XenServer plugin has been installed (following Installation Guide), you can create OpenStack environments that use XenServer as the underlying hypervisor

Select Environment

  1. Create a new environment with the Fuel UI wizard. Select "Juno+Citrix XenServer on Ubuntu 14.04.1" from OpenStack Release dropdown list. At the moment you will see most of options are disabled in the wizard.

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  2. Create new VMs in XenCenter for the compute nodes

  3. Select all Compute virtual Machines, Right click on one of the Virtual Machines and select "Add Management Network"

  4. Use the dialog to add the Host Internal Management Network to the compute virtual machines

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  5. Add new VMs to the new environment according to Fuel User Guide and configure them properly. A typical topology of 1 controller node + 3 compute nodes + 1 storage node is recommended.

  6. Go to Settings tab and scroll down to "XenServer Plugin" section. You need to input the common access credentials to all XenServers that previously are used to create new VMs.

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  7. If the XenServer host already has compatible Nova plugins installed, untick the checkbox to install the supplemental packs. In normal cases, the XenServer host will not have compatible Nova plugins installed, so leave the checkbox enabled

Finish environment configuration

  1. Run network verification check

  2. Press Deploy button to once you are done with environment configuration.

  3. After deployment is done, you will see in Horizon that all hypervisors are xen.

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