SUSE Cloud: nova-compute down

Posted on August 14, 2015 by ebl

This article refers to a three node environment based on SUSE Cloud 5, consisting of 1 admin, 1 control (both SLES11-SP3) and 1 compute node on SLES12.
If you decide to run your compute node on SLES12 it’s likely that you’ll be facing some difficulties getting your cloud working. One of them is the service nova-compute.

Continue reading →

Posted in SUSE Cloud | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

SUSE Cloud 5 repositories

Posted on August 12, 2015 by ebl

Currently, I am working in a test environment for SUSE Cloud 5 consisting of three nodes: 1 admin, 1 control and 1 compute node. Compute runs with SLES12, the other nodes with SLES11-SP3.
I had some troubles setting up the repositories correctly, that’s why I wanted to share my experience and my current settings. This post is divided into two parts because in my first attempts I had a setup with a remote SMT-Server. Meanwhile, I use SUSE Manager to provide the update repositories. Continue reading →

Posted in SUSE Cloud | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

How to reinstall SUSE Cloud

Posted on August 11, 2015 by ebl

This post refers to SUSE Cloud 5.
I have a test environment consisting of four nodes: 1 admin node, 1 control node and 2 compute nodes.
While you are trying to set up your cloud environment you could be facing different issues from time to time, some of them will require to install the cloud from scratch because of misconfiguration or other causes.
Continue reading →

Posted in SUSE Cloud | Tagged | Leave a comment