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Hyper-V Volumes Management
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To enable the volume features, the first thing that needs to be done is to
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enable the iSCSI service on the Windows compute nodes and set it to start
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sc config msiscsi start= auto
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In Windows Server 2012, it's important to execute the following commands to
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prevent having the volumes being online by default:
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How to check if your iSCSI configuration is working properly:
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On your OpenStack controller:
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1. Create a volume with e.g. "nova volume-create 1" and note the generated
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2. iscsicli QAddTargetPortal <your_iSCSI_target>
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3. iscsicli ListTargets
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The output should contain the iqn related to your volume:
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iqn.2010-10.org.openstack:volume-<volume_id>
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How to test Boot from volume in Hyper-V from the OpenStack dashboard:
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1. Fist of all create a volume
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2. Get the volume ID of the created volume
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3. Upload and untar to the Cloud controller the next VHD image:
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http://dev.opennebula.org/attachments/download/482/ttylinux.vhd.gz
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4. sudo dd if=/path/to/vhdfileofstep3
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of=/dev/nova-volumes/volume-XXXXX <- Related to the ID of step 2
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5. Launch an instance from any image (this is not important because we are
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just booting from a volume) from the dashboard, and don't forget to select
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boot from volume and select the volume created in step2. Important: Device