Multi-node Installation

For users wanting to build a scaled out and high available production environment, ths recommended way is to install 2 ZStack management nodes, MySQL, and RabbitMQ on separate machines:

For machine to install ZStack management node, we recommend below hardware specification:

CPU	>= 4 Cores Intel/AMD CPUs supporting VT-x or SVM
Memory	>= 8G
Free Disk	>= 250G
OS	ZStack OS

For machines to install MySQL and RabbitMQ message broker, please refer to their official web sites.

Low disk capacity can cause RabbitMQ hang

Please make sure your RabbitMQ machine has enough memory and free disk. When encountering low memory or disk capacity, RabbitMQ will enter flow control mode which will throttle message delivery and lead to slow or paused ZStack management node.

1. Install ZStack Management Node 1

The Introduction of ZStack OS

ZStack OS is customized from CentOS 7.2, including required system libs, with friendly Terminal UI (TUI) and well tested by hundreds of cloud users.
ZStack OS ISO includes all ZStack required components. So installing ZStack OS does not need Internet connection.
Provide four installation modes: Enterprise management node mode, community management node mode, computing node mode, expert mode.

The Introduction of Four Installation Modes:

ZStack Enterprise management node	Install ZStack OS and ZStack Enterprise Management Node, which includes full Enterprise features (like VM HA, QoS, VM password resetting ...) with 1 free computing node license.
ZStack Community Management Node	Install ZStack OS and ZStack Community Management Node, which could add unlimited computing nodes.
ZStack Computing Node	Install ZStack OS and the computing node essential packages.
ZStack Expert Node	Install ZStack OS and config the local yum. This is for advanced usage, e.g. installing multiple ZStack Management Nodes.

Install ZStack Management Node

Download ZStack iso

ZStack user should download the ZStack OS ZStack-x86_64-DVD-2.0.2.iso and ZStack-installer package ZStack-installer-2.0.2.bin.

Download link :

ZStack ISO:http://cdn.zstack.io/community/downloads/iso/ZStack-x86_64-DVD-2.0.2.iso
ZStack-installer package:http://cdn.zstack.io/community/downloads/zstack/2.0/ZStack-installer-2.0.2.bin

The md5sum of ZStack ISO is:21208f60790e34cb7fe66d1290d6b291
The md5sum of ZStack-installer package is:b9ce198420cc398504d8a4de4caf5709

System Installation

The system has been pre-configured default options: DATE & TIME for the East Asia Area, LANGUAGE is English, KEYBOARD is English (US). The administrator can change the configuration.

Mode selection

If you want to use multi-node Installation, please choose ZStack Expert Mode.

Please be patient, the installation will cost a moment. You can click the root password to set the password.
Depending on the hardware performance, the process may take 5 ~ 15 minutes.

Use wget:

After ZStack OS expert mode is installed, please login System and do:

wget http://cdn.zstack.io/community/downloads/zstack/2.0/ZStack-installer-2.0.2.bin

bash ZStack-installer-2.0.2.bin -i

Install ZStack with -i parameter

Mysql and RabbitMQ aren't installed, and only the management node is installed, after adding the -i parameter.

Once you successfully installed the node, configure the IP into zstack.properties:

zstack-ctl configure management.server.ip=ip_of_management_node1

Example: zstack-ctl configure management.server.ip=10.89.13.57

zstack-ctl save_config

2. Install MySQL

You can use ZStack control tool zstack-ctl, which is automatically installed along with ZStack in step 1. To install MySQL.

sudo zstack-ctl install_db --host=ip_of_machine_to_install_mysql

Example: sudo zstack-ctl install_db --host=192.168.0.225

zstack-ctl leverages Ansible to do the installation; it will ask you for SSH root password if the SSH key is not set on the remote machine.

3. Install RabbitMQ

As step 2, you can use zstack-ctl to install RabbitMQ too:

sudo zstack-ctl install_rabbitmq --host=ip_of_machine_to_install_rabbitmq

Example: sudo zstack-ctl install_rabbitmq --host=192.168.0.225

Once you successfully installed RabbitMQ, you need to create credentials for remote access:

rabbitmqctl add_user username password

Example: rabbitmqctl add_user zstack zstack123

rabbitmqctl set_user_tags username administrator

Example: rabbitmqctl set_user_tags zstack administrator

rabbitmqctl change_password username password

Example: rabbitmqctl change_password zstack zstack123

rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / username ".*" ".*" ".*"

Example: rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / zstack ".*" ".*" ".*"

Now you need to configure above RabbitMQ credentials to zstack.properties:

zstack-ctl configure CloudBus.rabbitmqUsername=rabbitmq_username

Example: zstack-ctl configure CloudBus.rabbitmqUsername=zstack

zstack-ctl configure CloudBus.rabbitmqPassword=rabbitmq_password

Example: zstack-ctl configure CloudBus.rabbitmqPassword=zstack123

zstack-ctl save_config

4. Install ZStack Management Node 2

On the management node 1, you can use zstack-ctl to install extra management nodes:

sudo zstack-ctl install_management_node --host=ip_of_machine_to_install_node_2

Example: sudo zstack-ctl install_management_node --host=192.168.0.225

Once you successfully installed the node, configure the IP into zstack.properties:

zstack-ctl configure management.server.ip=ip_of_management_node2

Example: zstack-ctl configure management.server.ip=10.89.13.57

zstack-ctl save_config

you can repeat this step to install more nodes if needed.

5. Install Web UI

On the management node 1, you can use zstack-ctl to install web UI:

5.1 Install to local

sudo zstack-ctl install_ui

5.2 Install to separate machine

sudo zstack-ctl install_ui --host=ip_of_machine_to_install_ui

Example: sudo zstack-ctl install_ui --host=192.168.0.225

Default Credential

The default credential for UI login is admin/password.

Now your multi-node ZStack environment is successfully installed, visit Getting Started With Multi-node Installation see how to configure and run ZStack.