OpenStack (Juno) - How to install Mirantis Fuel 6.0 with default configurations using Virtual Box on Windows 7

I have put together the steps that I took to set up the environment on my laptop (8GB RAM, i7 Dual-Core, Hyper-thread enabled, 500GB Hard Disk, 64-bits Windows 7) with reference to http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-5.1/user-guide.html

I managed to get the test Cirros VM up and running with the default configurations (no changes made).

Hopefully these steps are useful for those who wants to try out OpenStack (Juno) deployment on your local machine with Mirantis Fuel 6.0

Cheers!

Steps:

1) Download Mirantis Fuel 6.0 from Mirantis website:

https://software.mirantis.com/

2) Download and install the latest version of Virtual Box on your laptop

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

3) Open Virtual Box and click on File -> Preferences -> Network -> Host-only Networks

4) Add 2 more Host-only Networks by clicking on

5) Configure each network by clicking

Note that I have made use of the default configurations: 

VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter

VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter #2

VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter #3

I did not set up any DHCP Server for the networks:

6) Create the Fuel VM using VirtualBox.  I used the following specifications (you can adjust based on your needs but I feel that this is the minimal requirements for it to work with acceptable performance):

Operating System     : 64-bits Red Hat

RAM                         : 1536  RAM

Hard Drive                : 50 GB (VDI, Dynamic Allocation) 

Number of Processor : 1

7) Configure the Network settings for Fuel:

Adapter 1

Adapter 2

Adapter 3

8) Boot the Fuel VM with the MirantisOpenStack-6.0.iso image and use the default settings (let the installer run, i.e. there is no need for manual intervention)

9) As it will take some time to install Fuel, we can set up another 2 VMs while waiting for it to be ready (I am only setting up 1 Controller and 1 Compute node as I have limited resources on my laptop).  

Create 1st VM (Controller, Cinder, Ceilometer) with the following specifications (you can change the settings based on your needs but it is better to have at least 50GB of HDD and 1536 MB RAM for the VM):

Operating System     : 64-bits Ubuntu

RAM                         : 2048  RAM

Hard Drive                : 150 GB (VDI, Dynamic Allocation) 

Number of Processor : 1

Create 2nd VM (Compute) with the following specifications (you can again change the settings based on your needs):

Operating System     : 64-bits Ubuntu

RAM                         : 2048  RAM

Hard Drive                : 250 GB (VDI, Dynamic Allocation) 

Number of Processor : 2

Configure the Network settings for both VMs (they will have the same configuration).  Adapter 1 and 2 will have the same settings as Fuel while Adapter 3 will have the following settings (check that MAC addresses are unique for each adaptor):

Configure the System settings of both VMs for PXE boot, i.e. Network should be on the top list for Boot Order.

10) Wait for Fuel to be installed and we should see the following login prompt:

Key in http://10.20.0.2:8000 on your browser (I used Google Chrome) and it should bring you to the Fuel login screen.  Use the default credentials admin/admin to log in for the first time (note that the web page can fail to load if port 8000 is blocked by Firewall):

11) After logging in, start up the other 2 VMs (click "Cancel" when prompted to provide start-up disk).  The VM should go into PXE boot and we will eventually arrive at the bootstrap login prompt:

12) Go back to Fuel GUI and click on the following icon to create a new OpenStack Environment:

I pretty much used the default settings for non-HA deployment (it is not necessarily to select Ceilometer, I select it as I want to track resource usage in my openstack environment):

OpenStack Release : Juno on Ubuntu 12.04.4 (2014.2-6.0) (default)

Deployment Mode  : Multi-node

Compute                 : QEMU

Network Setup        : Neutron with VLAN segmentation (default)

Storage Backends   : Cinder, Glance Default

Additional Services : Ceilometer

13) Next, click on the "Add Nodes" button to assign roles to the VMs:

We will see 2 unallocated nodes with MAC addresses as their names.  We can differentiate the compute and controller node by looking at the HDD size.  In this case, we know that the following node is the Compute node since it has 250 GB stated as its HDD size.  We will rename it and assign the "Compute" role to it: 

Assign Controller, Storage (Cinder) and Telemetry to the remaining node:

14) We will keep the default settings in the Networks and Settings Tab.  To check that there are no network issues, click on the "Verify Networks" button (it can be found at the bottom of the Network Tab).  It should return all green status since we are using the default settings.

15) Next, click on the following button to deploy the OpenStack environment:

16) It will take quite a while to deploy the environment.  At the end of the deployment, we should see the IP address of the Horizon dashboard:

17) Run basic sanity tests (under the Health Check tab) to make sure that things are good

18) Check that you can access the Horizon dashboard (the default login is admin/admin)

19) Go to the Project tab, followed by Compute -> Instance and click on the "Launch Instance"  button on the right-hand side of the screen

20) Create a Cirros TestVM with Horizon and use the default net04 network that was created during the OpenStack deployment (click on the Launch button after filling in the field):

21) Check that the Cirros VM is in "Active" state

You have successfully installed Mirantis OpenStack and created a test VM =)

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