Preparing the server
We will be creating a single node install of DevStack and be using Nova networking, rather than Neutron networking for the sake of simplicity.
It is possible to run DevStack in multiple environments, right from running it on a virtual machine (VM) in your laptop/desktop, physical hardware, or even in public cloud environments like Azure and Rackspace.
In this book, we will create our VM running on an ESXi server in our lab environment. The only limitation in following this approach is that we will be able to use only QEMU as opposed to KVM (we can edit to pass the 64 bit flags up, but that will not give us true 64 bit in the nested hypervisor environment).
Minimum configuration required
In order to run DevStack, the following ...
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