<div dir="ltr">This is issue I hit recently. There are staging drivers [1] and there is virtualbmc [2] to emulate ipmi for virtual machines. I ended up using pxe_wol_isci driver.<br><br>[1] - <a href="http://ironic-staging-drivers.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html">http://ironic-staging-drivers.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html</a><br>[2] - <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualbmc/1.2.0">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualbmc/1.2.0</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Waines, Greg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Greg.Waines@windriver.com" target="_blank">Greg.Waines@windriver.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">







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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Hey,</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We have been integrating OpenStack Ironic into our own OpenStack Distribution.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Thanks to help from the mailing list, we’ve been able to successfully ‘nova boot’ a bare metal instance on an ironic node using the pxe_ipmitool drivers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Thanks again for all the help.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">A QUESTION about some future work we are starting to look at.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We are interested in using Ironic to boot smaller devices that do NOT support IPMI.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I believe that there are other drivers such as pxe_ssh for managing resets and power on/off of such servers.<br>
But i don’t understand how these work at a high-level.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">e.g.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">- where do the pxe_ssh drivers SSH to ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">      >  for reset, i suppose it could be the ironic node itself (if it’s actually running a load, like the deployment image)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">      > but for power on/off ... it can’t be the ironic node itself<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Can somebody provide or point me to a brief explanation of how Ironic can be used for
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serving loads to devices NOT supporting IPMI ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">thanks in advance,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Greg<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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