Planning an Installation with Cloud Lifecycle Manager
2 Hardware and Software Support Matrix
This document lists the details about the supported hardware and software for HPE Helion OpenStack 8
2.1 OpenStack Version Information #
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 services have been updated to the OpenStack Pike release.
2.2 Supported Hardware Configurations #
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 supports hardware that is certified for SLES through the YES certification program. You will find a database of certified hardware at https://www.suse.com/yessearch/.
2.3 Support for Core and Non-Core OpenStack Features #
| OpenStack Service | Packages | Supported | OpenStack Service | Packages | Supported | |
| Aodh | No | No | Barbican | Yes | Yes | |
| Ceilometer | Yes | Yes | Cinder | Yes | Yes | |
| Designate | Yes | Yes | Freezer | Yes | Yes | |
| Glance | Yes | Yes | Heat | Yes | Yes | |
| Horizon | Yes | Yes | Ironic | Yes | Yes | |
| Keystone | Yes | Yes | Magnum | Yes | Yes | |
| Manila | Yes | Yes | Monasca | Yes | Yes | |
| Monasca-Ceilometer | Yes | Yes | Neutron | Yes | Yes | |
| Neutron(LBaaSv2) | Yes | Yes | Neutron(VPNaaS) | Yes | Yes | |
| Neutron(FWaaS) | Yes | Yes | Nova | Yes | Yes | |
| Octavia | Yes | Yes | Swift | Yes | Yes |
Nova
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
SLES KVM Hypervisor | Xen hypervisor |
VMware ESX Hypervisor | Hyper-V |
RHEL KVM Hypervisor | Non-x86 Architectures |
Neutron
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
|
Tenant networks
|
Distributed Virtual Router (DVR) with any of the following:
|
VMware ESX Hypervisor | QoS |
RHEL KVM Hypervisor |
Glance Supported Features
Swift and Ceph backends
Cinder
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
Encrypted & private volumes | VSA |
Incremental backup, backup attached volume, encrypted volume backup, backup snapshots |
Swift
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
Erasure coding | Geographically distributed clusters |
Dispersion report | |
Swift zones |
Keystone
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
Domains | Web SSO |
Fernet tokens | Multi-Factor authentication |
| LDAP integration | Federation Keystone to Keystone |
Hierarchical multi-tenancy |
Barbican Supported Features
Encryption for the following:
Cinder
Hardware security model
Encrypted data volumes
LBaaS
Symmetric keys
Storage keys
CADF format auditing events
Ceilometer
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
Keystone v3 support | Gnocchi |
Glance v2 API | IPMI and SNMP |
Ceilometer Event APIs | |
Ceilometer Compute Agent |
Heat Features Not Supported
Multi-region stack
Ironic
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
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Drivers
| UEFI secure |
Booting methods | |
Power | |
Compute | |
Networking | |
Images |
Freezer
Supported | Not Supported |
|---|---|
Backup of Control Plane data | Backup of tenant VMs, volumes, files, directories and databases |
Backup Lifecycle Manager | |
Backup of audit logs | |
Backup of centralized logging files |
2.4 Cloud Scaling #
In HPE Helion OpenStack 8 a total of 200 total compute nodes in a single region (Region0) across any of the following hypervisors is supported:
VMware ESX
SLES/KVM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux/KVM
You can distribute the compute nodes in any number of deployments as long as the total is no more than 200. Example: 100 ESX + 100 RHEL/KVM or 75 ESX + 25 SLES/KVM + 100 RHEL/KVM.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 supports a total of 8000 virtual machines across a total of 200 compute nodes.
2.5 Supported Software #
Supported ESXi versions
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 currently supports the following ESXi versions:
ESXi version 6.0
ESXi version 6.0 (Update 1b)
ESXi version 6.5
The following are the requirements for your vCenter server:
Software: vCenter (It is recommended to run the same server version as the ESXi hosts.)
License Requirements: vSphere Enterprise Plus license
2.6 Notes About Performance #
We have the following recommendations to ensure good performance of your cloud environment:
On the control plane nodes, you will want good I/O performance. Your array controllers must have cache controllers and we advise against the use of RAID-5.
On compute nodes, the I/O performance will influence the virtual machine start-up performance. We also recommend the use of cache controllers in your storage arrays.
If you are using dedicated object storage (Swift) nodes, in particular the account, container, and object servers, we recommend that your storage arrays have cache controllers.
For best performance on, set the servers power management setting in the iLO to OS Control Mode. This power mode setting is only available on servers that include the HP Power Regulator.
2.7 KVM Guest OS Support #
For a list of the supported VM guests, see https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP5/single-html/SLES-virtualization/#virt-support-guests
2.8 ESX Guest OS Support #
For ESX, refer to the VMware Compatibility Guide. The information for HPE Helion OpenStack is below the search form.
2.9 Ironic Guest OS Support #
A Verified Guest OS has been tested by HPE and appears to function properly as a bare metal instance on HPE Helion OpenStack 8.
A Certified Guest OS has been officially tested by the operating system vendor, or by HPE under the vendor's authorized program, and will be supported by the operating system vendor as a bare metal instance on HPE Helion OpenStack 8.
| Ironic Guest Operating System | Verified | Certified |
|---|---|---|
| RHEL 7.3 | Yes | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 | Yes | Yes |