[openstack-dev] baremetal nova boot issue

Ravikanth Samprathi rsamprat at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 18:42:31 UTC 2013


You mean there is no power driver for anything other than tilera?  I am
using supermicro intel based baremetal nodes. And for testing am simulating
using VMs are baremetals as well.
Please let me know.
Thanks
Ravi



On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Ravikanth Samprathi's message of 2013-10-14 11:15:15 -0700:
> > Thank you for your help and pointers Rob.
> > I followed instructions from the baremetal wiki and i am lost in the last
> > step.
> >
> > First:
> > I setup pxelinux.cfg/default to point to my-initrd and my-vmlinuz for pxe
> > boot.
> > My baremetal node goes into this prompt:
> > (initramfs)
> > I dont know if the above is correct.
> >
> > Second:
> > Then i do nova boot, which gives me this:
> > root at os:/tftpboot# nova boot --flavor my-baremetal-flavor --image
> my-image
> > my-baremetal-node
> >
> +-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
> > | Property                            |
> > Value                                |
> >
> +-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
> > | status                              |
> > BUILD                                |
> > | updated                             |
> > 2013-10-14T18:08:50Z                 |
> > | OS-EXT-STS:task_state               |
> > scheduling                           |
> > | OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:host                |
> > None                                 |
> > | key_name                            |
> > None                                 |
> > | image                               |
> > my-image                             |
> > | hostId
> > |                                      |
> > | OS-EXT-STS:vm_state                 |
> > building                             |
> > | OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name       |
> > instance-00000021                    |
> > | OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:hypervisor_hostname |
> > None                                 |
> > | flavor                              |
> > my-baremetal-flavor                  |
> > | id                                  |
> > c9fd52de-e93e-44dd-9009-9395e964829e |
> > | security_groups                     | [{u'name':
> > u'default'}]              |
> > | user_id                             |
> > 251bd0a9388a477b9c24c99b223e7b2a     |
> > | name                                |
> > my-baremetal-node                    |
> > | adminPass                           |
> > 5kHEX46xremR                         |
> > | tenant_id                           |
> > 8a34123d83824f3ea52527c5a28ad81e     |
> > | created                             |
> > 2013-10-14T18:08:49Z                 |
> > | OS-DCF:diskConfig                   |
> > MANUAL                               |
> > | metadata                            |
> > {}                                   |
> > | accessIPv4
> > |                                      |
> > | accessIPv6
> > |                                      |
> > | progress                            |
> > 0                                    |
> > | OS-EXT-STS:power_state              |
> > 0                                    |
> > | OS-EXT-AZ:availability_zone         |
> > nova                                 |
> > | config_drive
> > |                                      |
> >
> +-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
> > root at os:/tftpboot#
> >
> > Before doing this, I have done the nova-baremetal-create and interface
> add,
> > and this is what i get:
> > ======================================================================
> >
> > root at os:/tftpboot# nova baremetal-node-create os 1 1024 10
> 00:50:56:AA:20:54
> > +------------------+-------------------+
> > | Property         | Value             |
> > +------------------+-------------------+
> > | instance_uuid    | None              |
> > | pm_address       | None              |
> > | interfaces       | []                |
> > | prov_vlan_id     | None              |
> > | cpus             | 1                 |
> > | memory_mb        | 1024              |
> > | prov_mac_address | 00:50:56:AA:20:54 |
> > | service_host     | os                |
> > | local_gb         | 10                |
> > | id               | 2                 |
> > | pm_user          | None              |
> > | terminal_port    | None              |
> > +------------------+-------------------+
> > root at os:/tftpboot# nova baremetal-interface-add 2 00:50:56:AA:20:54
> > +-------------+-------------------+
> > | Property    | Value             |
> > +-------------+-------------------+
> > | datapath_id | 0                 |
> > | id          | 2                 |
> > | port_no     | 0                 |
> > | address     | 00:50:56:AA:20:54 |
> > +-------------+-------------------+
> >
> > The baremetal node is stuck at (initramfs) no auto powering and no auto
> > booting happens.
> > I have not given --pm options , should i give that and if so what are the
> > values?
> > What am i missing?
>
> If you don't give the power driver an address and credentials to turn
> the machine on and off, you can't expect automatic deployment to work.
> You will need IPMI credentials and an IP that the compute node can reach
> to turn the machine on/off using the IPMI protocol.
>
> If your machines do not have IPMI, and they are not Tilera based, you
> will need to write a power driver to turn them on and off.
>
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