Setting fixed addresses for fixed addresses

I’m working in a SUSE Cloud 5 environment consisting of 4 nodes, one admin node (VM, SLES11), one control node (physical, SLES11) and two compute nodes (both physical, one with SLES11, one with SLES12). The OpenStack version is Juno.

This article describes how to assign specific fixed ip addresses to your Cloud instances with nova boot command even though this feature is not supported. Continue reading

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Using SUSE Cloud to setup a practice environment

In this article, I would like to give a brief description what should be considered if you want to setup a test environment in SUSE Cloud 5 for different users and/or tenants. Continue reading

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SUSE Cloud: instance has no IP

This article refers to a four node environment based on SUSE Cloud 5, consisting of 1 admin node, 1 control node (both SLES11-SP3), 2 compute nodes, one with SLES11-SP3, the other with SLES12. The SLES11 compute node was added later for debugging purposes. I won’t describe the issues during cloud deployment, they are part of the other posts in this blog.
If you decide to run your compute node on SLES12 it is very likely that your launched instances won’t get an ip address assigned during creation time.
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