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.. _NovaLink: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER8/p8eig/p8eig_kickoff.htm?cp=POWER8
PowerVM configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PowerVM usage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Compute driver for OpenStack-Ansible should automatically detect that it
is of type PowerVM. If the user has specified a specific compute type, that
is applicable to the whole cloud. It is advised that the deployer allows
OSA to detect the appropriate compute node type.
is applicable to the whole cloud. It is advised that the you allow OSA to
detect the appropriate compute node type.
The full set of configuration options for the PowerVM driver can be
found in the ``nova-powervm`` usage_.
.. _usage: http://nova-powervm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/devref/usage.html
Configuring storage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are various storage back ends available for PowerVM such as local disk
and shared storage pools. For example, to enable local disk storage backed by
a logical volume group, you can set:
.. code-block:: yaml
nova_nova_conf_overrides:
powervm:
disk_driver: localdisk
volume_group_name: <<VOLUME GROUP NAME>>
To enable iSCSI as the volume attachment type, you can set the
``volume_adapter`` setting:
.. code-block:: yaml
nova_nova_conf_overrides:
powervm:
volume_adapter: iscsi
The default volume attachment type for PowerVM is fibre channel.
Enabling VNC console
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PowerVM only supports connecting to instance consoles over VNC. As
OpenStack-Ansible defaults to Spice console, you must set the
``nova_console_type`` variable to enable NoVNC:
.. code-block:: yaml
nova_console_type: novnc
Enabling configuration drive
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By default, PowerVM uses configuration drives to provide configuration
information to instances built by nova. To enable this support in
OpenStack-Ansible, you can set the ``nova_force_config_drive``
variable as documented in the `nova configuration instructions`_.
.. _nova configuration instructions: ./configure-nova.html#config-drive
Additionally, you can enable flat network injection by using the
``nova_nova_conf_overrides`` variable:
.. code-block:: yaml
nova_nova_conf_overrides:
DEFAULT:
flat_injected: True