Chapter 13. Compute (nova) Parameters

EnableConfigPurge

Remove configuration that is not generated by the director. Used to avoid configuration remnants after upgrades. The default value is: False

InstanceNameTemplate

Template string to be used to generate instance names. The default value is: instance-%08x

MigrationSshKey

SSH key for migration. Expects a dictionary with keys public_key and private_key. Values should be identical to SSH public/private key files.

NeutronMetadataProxySharedSecret

Shared secret to prevent spoofing.

NovaComputeLibvirtType

Libvirt domain type. Defaults to kvm.

NovaComputeLibvirtVifDriver

Libvirt VIF driver configuration for the network.

NovaEnableDBPurge

Whether to create cron job for purging soft deleted rows in OpenStack Compute (nova) database. The default value is: True

NovaIPv6

Enable IPv6 features for OpenStack Compute (nova). The default is: false

NovaLibvirtRxQueueSize

Virtio-net RX queue size. Valid values are 256, 512, 1024. The default value is: 512

NovaLibvirtTxQueueSize

Virtio-net TX queue size. Valid values are 256, 512, 1024. The default value is: 512

NovaOVSBridge

Name of integration bridge used by Open vSwitch. The default value is: br-int

NovaPCIPassthrough

YAML list of PCI passthrough whitelist parameters.

NovaPassword

The password for the OpenStack Compute (nova) service and database account.

NovaReservedHostMemory

Reserved RAM for host processes. The default value is: 2048

NovaSchedulerAvailableFilters

List of available filters for OpenStack Compute (nova) to use to filter nodes.

NovaSchedulerDefaultFilters

An array of filters OpenStack Compute (nova) uses to filter a node. OpenStack Compute applies these filters in the order they are listed. Place your most restrictive filters first to make the filtering process more efficient.

NovaVcpuPinSet

A list or range of physical CPU cores to reserve for virtual machine processes. For example, NovaVcpuPinSet: [4-12,^8] reserves cores from 4-12 excluding 8.

NovaWorkers

Number of workers for the Compute’s Conductor service. The default value is: 0. Note that more workers creates a larger number of processes on systems, which results in excess memory consumption.

UpgradeLevelNovaCompute

OpenStack Compute upgrade level. The default value is: auto