The key areas of discussion focus on the following: • What is available for integration within OpenStack as of the IceHouse release. • Recent updates for Windows Technologies in Nova, Cinder, and Neutron projects • An overview of the Hyper-V CI process including sneak peeks into upcoming infrastructure changes for Juno/K Releases • Technology additions to support Windows within the OpenStack ecosystem. • Summit Debrief and Juno Planning Outlined.

1. OpenStack Update
A VIEW THROUGH WINDOWS INTO THE ICEHOUSE

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and automation.
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interoperability for 11+ years professionally
 Active in Infragard (2011) & ISSA (2010) communities
 Working within the OpenStack community for over 3 years

3. Agenda
 To provide and overview of functionality available within the
OpenStack ecosystem for Microsoft Technologies.
 Provide an overview of technologies that may enhance your
experience with Windows and OpenStack.
 Give a high level overview of the OpenStack Continuous Integration
for Hyper-V.
 Provide a sneak peak into what’s brewing in the next two releases
for OpenStack and Microsoft technologies.

4. IceHouse Goals
 Continuous Integration
 Establish a CI infrastructure that responds to upstream
commits
 Stability
 Maintain parity and stability within current OpenStack
projects
 OpenVSwitch for Hyper-V
 Enable Vswitch interoperability between Windows and
KVM through OpenVswitch

5. Nova Compute
 Python stack runs natively on the Windows Platform
 Windows 8, 8.1 (Dev Only)/ Hyper-V/Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012,
2012R2(Havana+)
 Near feature parity with KVM
 Hyper-V Native features like shared nothing live migration
 MSIs: Full integration with all necessary components for the best
possible OpenStack experience expected by Windows Users and
Cloud Administrators.
 Get it now:
https://www.cloudbase.it/downloads/HyperVNovaCompute_Iceho
use_2014_1.msi

6. Horizon/FreeRDP Web Connect
 Seamlessly integrated RDP support in Icehouse, on both Nova and
Horizon.
 Specify the url of your FreeRDP-WebConnect service in the Hyper-V
Nova compute nodes as detailed below and restart the nova-
compute service.
 http://www.cloudbase.it/freerdp-html5-proxy-windows/
 This is direct access of Guest console through Hyper-V
 Runs on Most recent Windows or Linux.
 https://github.com/cloudbase/FreeRDP-WebConnect
 MSI installer also available:
 https://www.cloudbase.it/downloads/FreeRDPWebConnect_Beta.ms

7. Nova Continous Integration
 Came alive in mid January 2014
 Built and maintained by a small team of highly skilled engineers
 Undercloud of KVM on Centos providing virtualized Ubuntu
Devstack Controllers
 Two Physical Hyper-V nodes per Controller dynamically assembled
 All layers automated through native operating system tools, puppet,
or shell scripting.
 Executes a Tempest run for every upstream commit
 Automation and Scripts:
 https://github.com/openstack-hyper-v
 https://github.com/cloudbase

8. Neutron
 Icehouse focuse on stability to Neutron Hyper-V driver code
 Addition of Continuous Integration for the Hyper-V driver and
Neutron code.
 CI: Nested Networking tests network functionality up to VLAN
encapsulation with the existing Hyper-V Driver.
 Fully integrated configuration and installation built into the Hyper-v
Nova compute driver.
 OpenVSwitch for Hyper-V!!!!!!!!!!

9. OpenVSwitch for Hyper-V
 http://www.cloudbase.it/open-vswitch-on-hyper-v/
 Apache 2.0 Licensed and publicly available
User Space: https://github.com/cloudbase/openvswitch-hyperv
Kernel Driver: https://github.com/cloudbase/openvswitch-hyperv-kernel
 All Open vSwitch userspace tools and daemons (e.g. ovs-vsctl, ovs-
vswitchd) run natively on Windows or Hyper-V server.
 OVSDB database
 Newly developed Hyper-V virtual switch forwarding extension
 Provides the same set of tools available on Linux with a seamless
integration in the Hyper-V networking model
 Fully interoperable GRE and VXLAN encapsulation.

10. OpenVSwitch for Hyper-V
 MSI installer that takes care of installing all the required Windows
services for the obsdb-server and ovs-vswitchd daemons
 Supports fully automated installation and wrapping in your favorite
DevOps tools set.

11. Heat: templates for Windows
Workloads
 https://github.com/cloudbase/windows-heat-templates
 Active Directory Domain Controller
 Exchange 2013
 IIS
 MsSQL Server 2012
 Sharepoint 2013
 Puppet Agent

12. Juju and MAAS with Windows.
 http://www.cloudbase.it/windows-with-juju-and-maas/
 Native Juju Execution on Windows Platforms
 Juju charms for:
 Active Directory
 IIS
 SQL Server
 Exchange
 SharePoint
 Lync
 Hyper-V OpenStack Compute

13. Juno Pans
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-hyperv-juno
 Nova and Cinder SMB3 integration
 Nova x509 based Windows password-less authentication
 http://www.cloudbase.it/windows-without-passwords-in-openstack/
 Generation 2 VMs
 Nova serial console
 Nova soft reboot
 Nova host power actions

14. Juno Part 2
 Nova SMB shared storage
 This is like NFS shared instance storage in libvirt
 Nova / Neutron Hyper-V SR-IOV pass-through
 Nova Hyper-V clustering support
 Ironic Hyper-V integration

15. Juno Part 3
 Nova rescue
 Nova RemoteFX support
 Proposed in Havana
 GPU shares assigned to VMs for specific GFX optimization, VDI use
case - not GPU computation
 share is based on the amount of video memory
 Finite resource, requested via the flavor and require scheduler
knowledge of the resource
 GPU support for DirectX11 required on the host

16. The End
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