How To Install nova-compute-vmware on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-vmware on Ubuntu 20.04. nova-compute-vmware is OpenStack Compute - compute node (VMware) OpenStack Compute - compute node (VMware)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-vmware on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is nova-compute-vmware

nova-compute-vmware is:

OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.

Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.

Install this package on your compute nodes if you’re using VMware vCenter.

Package: nova-compute-vmware Architecture: all Version: 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Source: nova Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Openstack Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 45 Provides: nova-compute-hypervisor Depends: genisoimage, python3-nova (= 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2) Conflicts: nova-compute-hypervisor Filename: pool/universe/n/nova/nova-compute-vmware_21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 2932 MD5sum: a60c3946698a79e7a996637d2df2d44d SHA1: faef032091bb6191eb0c2944124dc18089f7d877 SHA256: 71fba843e02d1622ba42a6b8e00283f418558f02cf17878bcc96bbedc3890106 Homepage: https://launchpad.net/nova Description-en: OpenStack Compute - compute node (VMware) OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.

Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.

Install this package on your compute nodes if you’re using VMware vCenter.

There are three methods to install nova-compute-vmware on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nova-compute-vmware Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nova-compute-vmware using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-compute-vmware

Install nova-compute-vmware Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nova-compute-vmware using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nova-compute-vmware

Install nova-compute-vmware Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install nova-compute-vmware using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nova-compute-vmware

How To Uninstall nova-compute-vmware on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the nova-compute-vmware package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nova-compute-vmware

Uninstall nova-compute-vmware And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nova-compute-vmware and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-compute-vmware

Remove nova-compute-vmware Configurations and Data

To remove nova-compute-vmware configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-compute-vmware

Remove nova-compute-vmware configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nova-compute-vmware configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-compute-vmware

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-vmware package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.