Installation Guide

This is the Apache CloudStack installation guide

Building from Source

• Introduction
• Downloading the Release
• Verifying the Downloaded Release
  • Getting the KEYS
  • GPG
  • MD5
  • SHA512
• Prerequisites for building Apache CloudStack
• Extracting source
• Install new MySQL connector
  • MySQL connector APT repository
  • MySQL connector RPM repository
• Building DEB packages
  • Setting up an APT repo
  • Repository signing
  • Configuring your machines to use the APT repository
• Building RPMs from Source
  • Generating RPMS
• Building Non-OSS

General Installation

• Installation overview
  • Introduction
  • Minimum System Requirements
  • Package Repository
• Management Server Installation
  • Overview
  • Prepare the Operating System
  • Install the Management Server on the First Host
  • Downloading vhd-util
  • Install the database server
  • Prepare NFS Shares
  • Additional Management Servers
  • Prepare the System VM Template
  • Installation Complete! Next Steps

Configuration

• Configuring your CloudStack Installation
  • Overview of Provisioning Steps
  • Adding Regions (optional)
  • Adding a Zone
  • Adding a Pod
  • Adding a Cluster
  • Adding a Host
  • Add Primary Storage
  • Add Secondary Storage
  • Register Cloud Templates
  • Initialize and Test
  • Configuration Parameters
  • Granular Global Configuration Parameters

Hypervisor Setup

• Custom Hypervisor Installation
• Host Hyper-V Installation
  • System Requirements for Hyper-V Hypervisor Hosts
  • Preparation Checklist for Hyper-V
  • Hyper-V Installation Steps
  • Installing the CloudStack Agent on a Hyper-V Host
  • Physical Network Configuration for Hyper-V
  • Storage Preparation for Hyper-V (Optional)
• Host KVM Installation
  • System Requirements for KVM Hypervisor Hosts
  • KVM Installation Overview
  • Prepare the Operating System
  • RPM package repository
  • DEB package repository
  • Install and configure the Agent
  • Install and Configure libvirt
  • Configure the Security Policies
  • Configuring the Networking
  • Configure the network using OpenVswitch
  • Configuring the firewall
  • Additional Packages Required for Features
  • Add the host to CloudStack
• Host LXC Installation
  • System Requirements for LXC Hosts
  • LXC Installation Overview
  • Prepare the Operating System
  • RPM package repository
  • DEB package repository
  • Install and configure the Agent
  • Install and Configure libvirt
  • Configure the Security Policies
  • Configure the network bridges
  • Configuring the firewall
  • Add the host to CloudStack
• Host VMware vSphere Installation
  • System Requirements for vSphere Hosts
  • Preparation Checklist for VMware
  • vSphere Installation Steps
  • ESXi Host setup
  • Physical Host Networking
  • Configuring a vSphere Cluster with Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch
  • Configuring a VMware Datacenter with VMware Distributed Virtual Switch
  • Storage Preparation for vSphere (iSCSI only)
  • Add Hosts or Configure Clusters (vSphere)
  • Applying Hotfixes to a VMware vSphere Host
• Host Citrix XenServer Installation
  • System Requirements for XenServer Hosts
  • XenServer Installation Steps
  • Configure XenServer dom0 Memory
  • Username and Password
  • Time Synchronization
  • Install CloudStack XenServer Support Package (CSP)
  • Primary Storage Setup for XenServer
  • iSCSI Multipath Setup for XenServer (Optional)
  • Physical Networking Setup for XenServer
  • Upgrading XenServer Versions

Optional Installation

• Additional Installation Options
  • Installing the Usage Server (Optional)
  • SSL (Optional)
  • Health Checks and Monitoring (Optional)
  • Database Replication (Optional)
  • Amazon Web Services Interface
• About Password and Key Encryption
  • Changing the Default Password Encryption