Supported IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack support matrix

The following information describes the OpenStack configurations that are supported through the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack.

Table 1. IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack support matrix
Controller node Compute (Nova) Scheduler
Filter-scheduler
IBM Platform Resource Scheduler
Nova -network Not supported, use Neutron
quota_driver nova.quota.DbQuotaDriver (default)
nova.quota.NoopQuotaDriver
Network (Neutron) IP version IPv4
IPv4/IPv6 dual
(not supported by the PowerVC driver)
Network type
  • Flat
  • GRE (one compute hypervisor must be KVM, KVM for z Systems®, or PowerKVM)
  • VXLAN (one compute hypervisor must be KVM or KVM for z Systems)
  • VLAN
Virtual switch Open vSwitch 2.3
Plug-in
Ml2Plugin (default)
OVSNeutronPluginV2
IP address
assignment
for deployed
instances
DHCP - provided by Neutron DHCP agent
using the dnsmasq service. Not supported on PowerVC

Static - provided to instance by config_drive or the metadata service.

Floating IP addresses through L3 agent  - L3 agent is enabled by default in
the example environments
Security groups
Default neutron security groups do not allow ICMP
or SSH into deployed instance.
Storage (Cinder) Driver
  • cinder.volume.drivers.ibm.storwize_svc.StorwizeSVCDriver to SAN Volume Controller 6.4.1/6.4.2 for iSCSI and Fibre Channel
  • cinder.volume.drivers.LVMVolumeDriver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® version 6.4 or 6.5 for iSCSI
  • cinder.volume.drivers.ibm.ibmnas.IBMNAS_NFSDriver for SONAS and IBM Storwize® V7000 Unified
  • cinder.volume.drivers.ibm.gpfs.GPFSDriver
  • cinder.volume.drivers.vmware.vmdk.VMwareVcVmdkDriver for VMware
  • cinder.volume.drivers.ibm.xiv_ds8k.XIVDS8KDriver for IBM XIV® and DS8870 storage
  • powervc.volume.driver.powervc.PowerVCDriver
Authentication (Keystone) Identity backend keystone.identity.backends.sql.Identity
keystone.identity.backends.ldap.Identity
Token format UUID
PKI
Image (Glance) Image activation
  • config drive+cloud init (guest operating system: Linux or Windows)
  • config drive+VSAE (guest operating system: Linux or Windows)
  • config drive+sysprep (guest operating system: Windows)
  • ovf+VSAE (for PowerVC)
  • VMware Tools for VMware
Others Operating System
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, or 7.6 (x86_64).
Database
  • DB2® version 10.5 FP10
    Note: You must get the security fixes directly from DB2 and patch them to your environment. IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack product does not provide fixes for DB2.
  • MariaDB 5.5.x
  • MySQL 5.5.x (support is deprecated in IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, version 4.3)
Queue
  • Qpid 0.30 Transient in memory (support is deprecated in this release of IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, version 4.3)
  • rabbitmq-server 3.5.3 Transient in memory
      PowerVC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, or 7.6 (x86_64).
Compute node Hypervisor Type
  • KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, or 7.6 (x86_64).
  • KVM for IBM z Systems version 1.1
  • Hyper-V in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, or Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard, 2012 data center, 2012 R2 Standard, 2012 R2 data center
  • PowerKVM 2.1.1
  • VMware vCenter Server 5.5 or 6
  • z/VM® version 6.3
Driver
  • KVM (all platforms): Nova.virt.libvirt.LibvirtDriver
  • Hyper-V: Nova.virt.hyperv.HyperVDriver
  • PowerVC: powervc.nova.driver.virt.powervc.driver.PowerVCDriver
  • VMware: nova.virt.icmvmwareapi.ICMVMwareVCDriver
  • z/VM: nova.virt.zvm.ZVMDriver
Network (Neutron) Agent
  • KVM (all platforms): OVSNeutronAgent
  • Hyper-V: HyperVNeutronAgent
  • PowerVC: PowerVCNeutronAgent (Running on controller node)