OpenStack

Nova - Compute Service

List compute service on a cluster
nova service-list --binary nova-compute
How to suspend all VM on a host
nova list --all-tenants --host <host_name> \ 
            --fields name,status,task_state | \
            awk '{ if(NR>3&&$2!=""&&$6=="ACTIVE") print $2; }' | \
            xargs -I {} echo nova suspend {}
List VM of all tenants and export to CSV
nova list --all-tenants --fields name,status,tenant_id \
            | cut -d "|" -f 2,3,4,5 -s  \
            | tr "|" ";" \
            | sed 's/\s//g' > out.csv
Do a bulk command on a list of vms stored in a file.
If you have a file "list.txt" with a list of vmid you can do:
for vmid in `cat list.txt`; do nova command $vmid; done
Check console.log file size
find . -name console.log -printf "%k KB\t%p\n" | sort -h

Neutron - Networking Service

If you want to list ext-net (ie. 10.0.0.0/24) IP allocation you can use
neutron port-list | grep -o -e "10.0.0.[0-9]\{1,3\}" | sort -t . -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n
How to dump netns configuration?
On network node you can dump all tenants network configuration simply with command:
ip netns | xargs -I {} bash -c 'echo ==== {} ====; ip netns exec {} ifconfig'
How to get qrouter IPs ?
ip netns | grep "qrouter" | xargs -I {} ip netns exec {} ip a | grep "inet\s"
Howto attach nic to VM
nova interface-attach [--port-id <port_id>] [--net-id <net_id>]
                             [--fixed-ip <fixed_ip>]
                             <server>


Attach a network interface to an instance.
Delete unallocated floating IP
neutron floatingip-list -c "id" -c "port_id" -f csv \
| grep "\"\"" \
| cut -d, -f 1 \
| xargs -I {} neutron floatingip-delete {}

Glance - Image Service

How to load a VHD image ?
glance image-create \              
              --name "VHD Image" \
              --container-format bare \              
              --disk-format vhd \
              --property hypervisor_type=hyperv \
              < file.vhd
How to load a vmware VMDK image ?
glance image-create \              
              --name "VMDK Image" \
              --container-format ovf \              
              --disk-format vmdk \
              --property hypervisor_type=vmware \
              --property vmware_adaptertype=ide \
              --property vmware_disktype=sparse \
              < file.vmdk

QEMU

How to extract a VM disk from Ceph?
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 rbd:compute/{image_id}_disk {image_id}.qcow2

Libvirt

How to list all virtual interfaces on a compute node?
for vm in $(virsh list|grep esecuzione|awk '{print $2}'); do virsh domiflist $vm; done
Disable apparmor on Ubuntu

sudo service apparmor stop 
sudo service apparmor teardown
sudo update-rc.d -f apparmor remove

General troubleshooting

Filter error and trace messages with openstack services log files
grep -e 'ERROR\|TRACE'  file.log  | less -S