Chapter 2. Configuring the Compute service (nova) As a cloud administrator, you use environment files to customize the Compute (nova) service. Puppet generates and stores this configuration in the /var/lib/config-data/puppet-generated/<nova_container>/etc/nova/nova.conf file. Use the following configuration methods to customize the Compute service configuration, in the following order of precedence: Heat parameters - as detailed in the Compute (nova) Parameters section in the Overcloud Parameters guide. The following example uses heat parameters to set the default scheduler filters, and configure an NFS backend for the Compute service: Puppet parameters - as defined in /etc/puppet/modules/nova/manifests/* : Note Only use this method if an equivalent heat parameter does not exist. Manual hieradata overrides - for customizing parameters when no heat or Puppet parameter exists. For example, the following sets the timeout_nbd in the [DEFAULT] section on the Compute role: Warning If a heat parameter exists, use it instead of the Puppet parameter. If a Puppet parameter exists, but not a heat parameter, use the Puppet parameter instead of the manual override method. Use the manual override method only if there is no equivalent heat or Puppet parameter. Tip Follow the guidance in Identifying parameters that you want to modify to determine if a heat or Puppet parameter is available for customizing a particular configuration. For more information about how to configure overcloud services, see Heat parameters in the Advanced Overcloud Customization guide. 2.1. Configuring memory for overallocation When you use memory overcommit ( NovaRAMAllocationRatio >= 1.0), you need to deploy your overcloud with enough swap space to support the allocation ratio. Note If your NovaRAMAllocationRatio parameter is set to < 1 , follow the RHEL recommendations for swap size. For more information, see Recommended system swap space in the RHEL Managing Storage Devices guide. Prerequisites You have calculated the swap size your node requires. For more information, see Calculating swap size . Procedure Copy the /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/enable-swap.yaml file to your environment file directory: Configure the swap size by adding the following parameters to your enable-swap.yaml file: Add the enable_swap.yaml environment file to the stack with your other environment files and deploy the overcloud: 2.2. Calculating reserved host memory on Compute nodes To determine the total amount of RAM to reserve for host processes, you need to allocate enough memory for each of the following: The resources that run on the host, for example, OSD consumes 3 GB of memory. The emulator overhead required to host instances. The hypervisor for each instance. After you calculate the additional demands on memory, use the following formula to help you determine the amount of memory to reserve for host processes on each node: Replace vm_no with the number of instances. Replace avg_instance_size with the average amount of memory each instance can use. Replace overhead with the hypervisor overhead required for each instance. Replace resource1 and all resources up to <resourcen> with the number of a resource type on the node. Replace resource_ram with the amount of RAM each resource of this type requires. 2.3. Calculating swap size The allocated swap size must be large enough to handle any memory overcommit. You can use the following formulas to calculate the swap size your node requires: overcommit_ratio = NovaRAMAllocationRatio - 1 Minimum swap size (MB) = (total_RAM * overcommit_ratio) + RHEL_min_swap Recommended (maximum) swap size (MB) = total_RAM * (overcommit_ratio + percentage_of_RAM_to_use_for_swap) The percentage_of_RAM_to_use_for_swap variable creates a buffer to account for QEMU overhead and any other resources consumed by the operating system or host services. For instance, to use 25% of the available RAM for swap, with 64GB total RAM, and NovaRAMAllocationRatio set to 1 : Recommended (maximum) swap size = 64000 MB * (0 + 0.25) = 16000 MB For information about how to calculate the NovaReservedHostMemory value, see Calculating reserved host memory on Compute nodes . For information about how to determine the RHEL_min_swap value, see Recommended system swap space in the RHEL Managing Storage Devices guide.

Commands:
parameter_defaults: NovaSchedulerDefaultFilters: AggregateInstanceExtraSpecsFilter,ComputeFilter,ComputeCapabilitiesFilter,ImagePropertiesFilter NovaNfsEnabled: true NovaNfsShare: '192.0.2.254:/export/nova' NovaNfsOptions: 'context=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0' NovaNfsVersion: '4.2'
parameter_defaults: ComputeExtraConfig: nova::compute::force_raw_images: True
parameter_defaults: ComputeExtraConfig: nova::config::nova_config: DEFAULT/timeout_nbd: value: '20'
cp /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/enable-swap.yaml /home/stack/templates/enable-swap.yaml
parameter_defaults: swap_size_megabytes: <swap size in MB> swap_path: <full path to location of swap, default: /swap>
(undercloud)USD openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e [your environment files] -e /home/stack/templates/enable-swap.yaml
NovaReservedHostMemory = total_RAM - ( (vm_no * (avg_instance_size + overhead)) + (resource1 * resource_ram) + (resourcen * resource_ram))