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I believe that local boot option is available in Ironic. Will not be a good
idea to boot from local disk instead of relying on PXE boot always? Curious
to know why we are not going this path?


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:54 AM, 严超 <yanchao727 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2014-08-26 23:17 GMT+08:00 Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com>:
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> Oh, after writing my response below I realized this is cross-posted
>> between openstack and openstack-dev.  Please don't do that.
>>
>> I suppose this probably belongs on the users list, but since I've
>> already written the response I guess I'm not going to argue too much. :-)
>>
>> On 08/26/2014 07:36 AM, 严超 wrote:
>> > Hi, All:
>> >         I've deployed undercloud and overcloud on some baremetals. All
>> > overcloud machines are deployed by undercloud.
>> >         Then I tried to shutdown undercloud machines. After that, if I
>> > reboot one overcloud machine, it will never boot from net, AKA PXE used
>> by
>> > undercloud.
>>
>> Yes, that's normal.  With the way our baremetal deployments work today,
>> the deployed systems always PXE boot.  After deployment they PXE boot a
>> kernel and ramdisk that use the deployed hard disk image, but it's still
>> a PXE boot.
>>
>> >         Is that what TripleO is designed to be ? We can never shutdown
>> > undercloud machines for maintainance of overcloud ?  Please help me
>> > clearify that.
>>
>> Yes, that's working as intended at the moment.  I recall hearing that
>> there were plans to eliminate the PXE requirement after deployment, but
>> you'd have to talk to the Ironic team about that.
>>
>> Also, I don't think it was ever the intent of TripleO that the
>> undercloud would be shut down after deployment.  The idea is that you
>> use the undercloud to manage the overcloud machines, so if you want to
>> reboot one you do it via the undercloud nova, not directly on the system
>> itself.
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