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How to Manually Extend Cinder Volumes Group in OpenStack

Cinder Volumes group is a block storage based on LVM (Logical Volume Manager) volume group, usually situated in Controller node in OpenStack cloud. It provides persistent block storage for runtime instances.

During typical packstack installation Cinder Volumes group size is determined in answer file (insert file) by following parameter:

CONFIG_CINDER_VOLUMES_SIZE=20G

If the Cinder Volumes group size we chose upon packstack installation turns out to be insufficient to create new volumes, we can attach additional physical volume on Controller node to the existing Cinder Volumes group and extend it with the new physical volume to gain more space.
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How To Reset Forgotten Root Password on RedHat 7 / CentOS 7

RedHat 7 / CentOS 7 unlike previous version 6, doesn’t provide the ability to reset / recover root password in signle-user mode any more. This situation takes place, because RedHat 7 / CentOS 7 uses systemd manager instead of sysVinit / upstart and both systemd targets: rescue.target and emergency.target require root password. That’s why in RedHat 7 / CentOS 7 we need installation disk to boot from.
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How To Reset Forgotten Root Password on RedHat 6 / CentOS 6

RedHat 6 / CentOS 6 system gives us the opportunity to reset root password in case we forget it, on condition that we have a direct access to the machine on which we want to reset root password. Password can be reset after booting the system into single-user mode.

Steps:

1. Reboot the system

2. At the screen: “Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux…” or “Booting CentOS…” press any key to display GRUB menu.
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LDAP Installation on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. As the name suggests, it is a lightweight protocol for accessing directory services, specifically X.500-based directory services. OpenLDAP is a free, open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) developed by the OpenLDAP Project. It is released under its own BSD-style license called the OpenLDAP Public License.

In this tutorial we will show you, how to install OpenLDAP server on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 and create basic configuration in a few simple steps:
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How to Create and Attach Cinder Volume to Instance in OpenStack

Cinder Volume is a block storage based on Linux LVM, which can be attached to instance and mounted as a regular file system.
In this tutorial we will show you how to create Cinder Volume in OpenStack and attach it to existing instance as additional partition.

Note: you need to have working OpenStack installation with existing project tenant and running instance in order to proceed with Cinder Volume creation.

Find out how to: Create project tenant in OpenStack and launch instances
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Create tenant in OpenStack and launch instances

In this tutorial we will show you, how to create project tenant in OpenStack Juno and launch instances accessible from external public network.

Note: this tutorial is a continuation of OpenStack Installation on CentOS7 / RHEL7 and we assume that you already have working installation of OpenStack.

Environment used:
cloud version: OpenStack Juno on CentOS7 (2 nodes: controller, compute)
public network (Floating IP network): 192.168.2.0/24
private network (inside Project Tenant): 192.168.20.0/24
public controller IP: 192.168.2.4 (eth0)
public compute IP: 192.168.2.5 (eth0)
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