Grid-o-Matic

Webinterface for XenServer

Supported features:

Multi server/pool support
Using xe-automator, provision network, hostname, ssh-key, password and puppet-certs

List running VM's

Filtered by tag(s)

Actions

Start/Stop/Restart/Edit/Destroy VM's

Create new VM:

Set static IP for VM
Set static IPv6 for VM (limited)
Select template (only ubuntu 12.04 LTS for now)
Select network
Select host (if in pool)
Set Memory amount
Set vCPU amount
Set SSH key for user root
Select if you want backups (Using XenBackup)
Set Tags
Set customfields

Edit VM:

Description
Memory Size
vCPU amount

Create new Network:

Name
Description
Vlan

Edit Network:

Name
Description

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Japje/gridomatic.git
cd gridomatic
mkvirtualenv gridomatic
pip install -r req.txt

After this you can create the gridomatic_web/local_settings.py with the settings needed for your server/pool

Dev Server

./manage.py runserver

Celery

See: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/master/getting-started/brokers/rabbitmq.html

On OSX:

brew install rabbitmq

On Ubuntu:

apt-get install rabbitmq-server

Start Server for dev:

sudo rabbitmq-server

Sync DB:

./manage.py syncdb

Run worker:

./manage.py celery worker

Ubuntu template addon

See: https://github.com/Japje/xenserver-automater

Once these scripts are installed you are able to use all the auto-deployable functionality of the grid-o-matic

Customfields and Tags

Unfortunately, the xenapi has no grouping for tags and/or customfields. This means i had to come up with a way to see which tags/fields excist in a hacky way: For each tag you want available for a pool, you should SET the tag on the pool object. for each custom field you want available, you sould fill in the custom field on the pool object with the text 'not set'

networks

To reduce the amount of work while creating a VM i have removed gateway, subnet and DNS from the creation form.

These will now be pulled from the network object itself via a custom field.

For each network you want to use set the following customfields:

network.ipv4 network.ipv6 network.dns

Syntax for the network information is | (pipe) seperated: 192.168.1.1|255.255.255.0 (gateway|netmask) or for IPv6 2001:db8:1337::1|64

The syntax for the DNS is space seperated: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4