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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">+1. This seems minimal risk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Debayan Ray <debayan.ray@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 2:36 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[openstack-dev] [ironic] FFE - Implementation for UEFI iSCSI boot for iLO drivers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Requesting FFE for firmware based iSCSI boot from volume support in iLO<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"># Pros<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">With the patches up for review[0] we have implemented firmware based iSCSI<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">boot from volume for iLO hardware.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">This functionality will allow users to take advantage of iLO BMC based boot<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">from volume, as UEFI firmware 1.40 or higher in HPE Gen9 and Gen10 ProLiant <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">hardware supports booting from iSCSI volume.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">The change adds the feature to the iLO drivers feature set and does not have<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">any impact on the existing functionalities of iLO driver.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"># Cons<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">None<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"># Risks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">None<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"># Reason of delay<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">This feature required new version of proliantutils (2.5.0), which got released<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">last week<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"># Core reviewers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Julia Kreger, Shivanand Tendulker<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">[0] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/468288/">
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/468288/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Thanks & Regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Debayan Ray (on behalf of Paresh Sao)<o:p></o:p></p>
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