You can increase the number of datastores available to the image service in your VMware Integrated OpenStack deployment.

Adding a datastore causes the image service to restart and might temporarily interrupt OpenStack services.

Prerequisites

Note: If you want to add compute clusters from a separate vCenter Server instance, you must deploy VMware Integrated OpenStack with NSX-T Data Center networking. Other networking modes do not support adding compute clusters from separate vCenter Server instances.

If you have added resources to your vSphere environment after deploying OpenStack, refresh your vCenter Server instance before proceeding.

  1. Log in to the Integrated OpenStack Manager web interface as the admin user.
  2. In OpenStack Deployment, click the name of your deployment and open the Manage tab.
  3. On the Settings tab, click vCenter Credentials.
  4. In the VC Resources column for the desired vCenter Server instance, click Refresh.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Integrated OpenStack Manager web interface as the admin user.
  2. In OpenStack Deployment, click the name of your deployment and open the Manage tab.
  3. Open the Glance tab and click Add.
  4. From the vCenter Server drop-down menu, select the vCenter Server instance containing the compute cluster that you want to add.
    ( NSX-T Data Center only) If the desired vCenter Server instance is not displayed, click the Add (plus sign) icon and enter its host name and credentials.
  5. Select one or more datastores to add and click Next.
  6. Review the proposed configuration and click Submit.

Results

The storage capacity for the image service increases accordingly with the size of the additional datastore.

What to do next

You can select a datastore and click Delete to remove it from the image service.