Chapter 8. Nova-Compute Service

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Configuring Nova-compute with KVM Hypervisor
  • Configuring Nova-compute with a QEMU Hypervisor emulation
  • Configuring Nova scheduler filters
  • Configuring Nova host aggregates
  • Configuring Nova host aggregates filters
  • Configuring Nova scheduler weights

Introduction

The front and center of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution is the compute service that runs the Cloud application workloads. OpenStack Compute, named project Nova, is responsible for providing computing as a Service framework for OpenStack that enables provisioning and managing the life cycle of instances of virtual machines at a large scale. Nova allows us to create, manage, and destroy virtual machine ...

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