Installing and Configuring OpenStack (Juno) in Oracle® Solaris

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Updated: June 2016
 
 

Known Limitations

The following are known issues with OpenStack (Juno) in Oracle Solaris 11.3:

  • Only Nova nodes running Oracle Solaris are fully supported because Neutron supports only a single plugin for network virtualization.

  • Currently the Cinder volume attachment is not supported in the non-global zones.

  • VM instances must be running Oracle Solaris 11.3.

  • Resizing VM instances is not supported.

    The nova resize command is not supported. Output from the nova resize command might say the command completed, but the nova resize-confirm command reports that the resizing of the instance cannot be confirmed, and the nova show command shows that the instance is not resized.

  • VM instance live migration is not supported.

    The nova live-migration command is not supported.

  • Cinder backup is not supported.

    The cinder-backup service is installed when you install the cinder package. However, in a default Cinder deployment such as described in Configuring the Storage Node, the service currently does not work for the backup_volume.

  • On the Launch Instance dialog in the dashboard, only Boot from image is supported for the Instance Boot Source. On the Project → Images & Snapshots → Actions menu, UploadToImage is not supported.

  • VXLAN datalinks are not supported as the value for the external_network_datalink option in the /etc/neutron/l3_agent.ini file. If you set a VXLAN datalink as the value for the external_network_datalink option, the Neutron L3 agent fails to create and plumb a VNIC on the external network.

  • You must use the command line to modify the quota for a network resource for a project.

    The quota for a network resource cannot be modified from Horizon. You can use the Horizon dashboard to create a project or modify non-network resources of an existing project. To modify the quota for networks, subnets, ports, routers, or floating IP addresses of a project, you must use the neutron quota-update command.

    Even when you modify a non-network resource, you see the following error message. You can ignore this message. Contrary to this message, the quota for the non-network resource has been applied.

    Error: Modified project information and members, but unable to modify project quotas.
  • Service status might be reported differently by SMF and by OpenStack.

    The following example shows that the nova-cert service is disabled in OpenStack, even though SMF shows the service as online:

    root@c190-133:~# nova service-disable c190-133 nova-cert
    +----------+-----------+----------+
    | Host     | Binary    | Status   |
    +----------+-----------+----------+
    | c190-133 | nova-cert | disabled |
    +----------+-----------+----------+
    root@c190-133:~# svcs nova-cert
    STATE          STIME    FMRI
    online         21:14:11 svc:/application/openstack/nova/nova-cert:default