<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>I am sorry if my explanation was hard to follow.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">In order to enroll my hardware, Openstack requires the Servers IP address, username and password.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Since I have no OS installed on the hardware(physical server) I have no IP address and no username/password</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times,
serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">On the hardware side only(not openstack) what needs to be done in order for Openstack to control the hardware?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thanks</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div
style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k@hp.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "openstack@lists.openstack.org" <openstack@lists.openstack.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 23, 2013 3:32 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6068543142">
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Please refer the hardware enrollment section under
</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal</a>.</div>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">1.<span style="font:7.0pt;">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Ensure your hardware is under same network backbone to communicate</span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Enroll the hardware properly as mentioned in the guide
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</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Nova baremetal driver will take care of the communication and you could see the logs in nova compute upon successful enrollment
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Thanks</span></div>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 23, 2013 11:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> K, Shanthakumar<br>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">I understand your points and that is taken care of, but how exactly is Openstack going to connect to the hardware if the hardware has
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">How should the hardware be prepared so I can give Openstack the information it needs to enroll the hardware? </span></div>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">Thanks,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> "K, Shanthakumar" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:shanthakumar.k@hp.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:shanthakumar.k@hp.com">shanthakumar.k@hp.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> Jake G. <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com">dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com</a>>
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<b>Cc:</b> "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 23, 2013 3:08 PM<br>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Your physical hardware should be maximum enough to support your OS configurations and baremetal flavor you have created.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Your physical hardware should contain minimum configurations to run an operating system</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">You need to take care of your Baremetal Flavor created WRT to your available hardware.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 23, 2013 10:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">I have been following this doc <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal#Image_Requirements">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal#Image_Requirements</a> </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">to setup openstack for baremetal provisioning. I have configured oopenstack properly, created an image,</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">and now I am ready to enroll my physical hardware. However, there seems to be no mention of how to </span><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv6068543142MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">prepare my physical hardware.</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div>
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