You can install VMware Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack with VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS for VMs). OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center.

OpenStack security documents

These documents provide a general reference for OpenStack service credential management.

Requirements

This section describes the requirements for installing Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack, including OpenStack requirements and general requirements for installing Tanzu Operations Manager with Tanzu Operations Manager and TAS for VMs.

For more information about TAS for VMs, see TAS for VMs Components.

The VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) runtime is not supported for OpenStack.

General resource requirements

For TAS for VMs-specific resource requirements, see TAS for VMs Resource Requirements.

OpenStack requirements

The OpenStack requirements for deploying Tanzu Operations Manager are:

  • Tanzu Operations Manager is supported on all supported releases of OpenStack. OpenStack is a collection of interoperable components and requires general OpenStack expertise to troubleshoot issues that might occur when installing Tanzu Operations Manager on particular releases and distributions. To verify that your OpenStack platform is compatible with Tanzu Operations Manager, use the OpenStack Validator tool. For information about the OpenStack Validator tool, see the CF OpenStack Validator repository on GitHub.

  • VMware recommends granting complete access to the OpenStack logs to the operator managing the Tanzu Operations Manager installation process.

  • For OpenStack accounts for Tanzu Operations Manager, VMware recommends following the principle of least privilege by scoping privileges to the most restrictive permissions possible for each role.

  • You must have a dedicated OpenStack project, formerly known as an OpenStack tenant.

  • You must have Keystone access to the dedicated OpenStack project, including the following:

    • Auth URL
    • Username and password. The PrimaryProject for the user must be the project you want to use to deploy Tanzu Operations Manager. For more information, see Manage projects and users in the OpenStack documentation.
    • Project name
    • Region (with multiple availability zones if you require high availability)
    • SSL certificate for your wildcard domain

  • You must have the ability to do the following in OpenStack:

    • Create and modify VM flavors.
    • Enable DHCP, if required.
    • Create a network and then connect that network with a router to an external network.
    • Create an external network with a pool of floating IP addresses.
    • Boot VMs directly from image.
    • Create two wildcard domains for separate system and app domains.

  • The resource requirements for the dedicated OpenStack project are:

    • 118 GB of RAM
    • 22 available instances
    • 14 small VMs (1 vCPU, 1024 MB of RAM, 10 GB of root disk)
    • 2 high-CPU VMs (2 vCPU, 1024 MB of RAM, 10 GB of root disk)
    • 3 large VMs (4 vCPU, 16384 MB of RAM, 10 GB of root disk)
    • 3 extra-large VMs (8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 160 GB of ephemeral disk)
    • 58 vCPUs
    • 1 TB of storage

    • Nova or Neutron networking with floating IP support

      By default, TAS for VMs deploys the number of VM instances required to run a highly available configuration of Tanzu Operations Manager. If you are deploying a test or sandbox Tanzu Operations Manager that does not require HA, then you can scale down the number of instances in your deployment. For information about the number of instances required to run a minimal, non-HA Tanzu Operations Manager deployment, see Scaling TAS for VMs.

  • The requirements for the OpenStack Cinder back end are:

    • Tanzu Operations Manager requires RAW root disk images. The Cinder back end for your OpenStack project must support RAW.
    • VMware recommends that you use a Cinder back end that supports snapshots. This is required for some BOSH functionalities.
    • VMware recommends enabling your Cinder back end to delete block storage asynchronously. If this is not possible, it must be able to delete multiple 20 GB volumes within 300 seconds.

  • The requirements for using an Overlay Network with VXLAN or GRE Protocols are:

    • If an overlay network is being used with VXLAN or GRE protocols, the MTU of the created VMs must be adjusted to the best practices recommended by the plug-in vendor (if any).
    • DHCP must be enabled in the internal network for the MTU to be assigned to the VMs automatically.
    • To adjust your MTU values, see Configure Networking in Configuring TAS for VMs.
    • Failure to configure your overlay network correctly could cause Apps Manager to fail because applications will not be able to connect to the UAA.

    If you are using IPsec, your resource usage increases by approximately 36 bytes. For details, including information about setting correct MTU values, see Installing IPsec in the IPsec documentation.

Install Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack with TAS for VMs

To install Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack with the TAS for VMs runtime:

  1. Deploy Tanzu Operations Manager. For more information, see Deploying Tanzu Operations Manager on OpenStack.

  2. Configure BOSH Director on OpenStack. For more information, see Configuring BOSH Director on OpenStack.

Next steps

Next, configure a runtime. See Configuring TAS for VMs.

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