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Deploying Horizon 8 with Manual Pools and Farms on Rackspace OpenStack

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With the recent introduction of manual pools and farms in Horizon 8, organizations can now leverage infrastructure platforms not natively supported for automated pool provisioning. This blog post details a real-world deployment using manual pools and farms running on OpenStack and was inspired by the blog post "Horizon 8 with manual pools and farms – using alternative hypervisors," written by Omnissa, which introduced how their incredible VDI solution can be leveraged on non-proprietary platforms.

VMware to OpenStack Migration using virt-v2v

This document describes the path to migrate a virtual machine from VMware to OpenStack using virt-v2v vpx. You should use vddk plugins to make this process fast for which link is mentioned in the doc.

I used OpenStack volume on the destination cloud however one can select glance or local basis upon their used cases.

Enable nbdkit vddk plugins

This document describes the path to build and install vddk plugins for nbdkit which is required to migrate a virtual machine from VMware to OpenStack using vpx. Please keep in mind that it requires VMware proprietary library that you must download yourself.

Installing aaPanel on a Flex Instance

This documentation provides a comprehensive guide to installing the free version of aaPanel on an Ubuntu 24 instance running on Rackspace Flex Cloud. aaPanel is a lightweight, user-friendly control panel that simplifies server and website management by offering a graphical interface for handling web services, databases, and security configurations. There is also a paid version of aaPanel which you can purchase through them and install.

Using ansible to create resources on flex cloud

Ansible has a wide range of modules available to create and manage resources like openstack flavors, images, keypairs, networks, routers among others on the flex cloud. These modules are available in the Openstack.Cloud ansible collection. In this post we will discuss creating resources on flex cloud using ansible modules.

Using ansible to manage instances on flex cloud

In this blog post we will discuss how we can use ansible to manage instances running on a flex cloud. It is important to note that while it is possible to create resources on an openstack cloud using ansible itself but the main aim of this blog post is to discuss how we can manage existing instances running within a project with ansible. The examples provided in this blog post are for instances running ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the base OS; these instructions can be adapted to accomodate any other OS as well