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iLo is an HP product only.


On 2013/08/23, at 16:35, "K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com> wrote:

> Irrespective of hardware it should work. Please use your ilo management IP Address, username & password for enrollment and proceed further.
>  
> Thanks
> Shanthakumar K
>  
> From: Jake G. [mailto:Dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:00 PM
> To: K, Shanthakumar
> Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>  
> I wish I had ilo. My test hardware is not an HP server unfortunately.
>  
> It's an older NEC Express5800/110Rh-1
> 
> On 2013/08/23, at 16:27, "K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com> wrote:
> 
> I got your concern, Your physical hardware needs to be in iLO / power management. So that you will have management  ilo IP address, username and password to enroll your hardware.
>  
> FYI: You don’t need to have OS installed in your physical hardware to enroll hardware for your baremetal.
>  
> Thanks
> Shanthakumar K
>  
> From: Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 12:15 PM
> To: K, Shanthakumar
> Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>  
> I am sorry if my explanation was hard to follow.
>  
> In order to enroll my hardware, Openstack requires the Servers IP address, username and password.
> Since I have no OS installed on the hardware(physical server) I have no IP address and no username/password
>  
> On the hardware side only(not openstack) what needs to be done in order for Openstack to control the hardware?
>  
> Thanks
>  
>  
> From: "K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com>
> To: Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org> 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 3:32 PM
> Subject: RE: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>  
> Please refer the hardware enrollment section under https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal.
>  
> 1.      Ensure your hardware is under same network backbone to communicate
> 2.      Enroll the hardware properly as mentioned in the guide
> 3.      Nova baremetal driver will take care of the communication and you could see the logs in nova compute upon successful enrollment
>  
> Thanks
> Shanthakumar K
>  
> From: Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:54 AM
> To: K, Shanthakumar
> Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>  
> 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 no OS and no IP?
> How should the hardware be prepared so I can give Openstack the information it needs to enroll the hardware? 
>  
> Thanks,
> Jake
>  
>  
>  
> From: "K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com>
> To: Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org> 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 3:08 PM
> Subject: RE: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>  
> Hi Jake,
>  
> Your physical hardware should be maximum enough to support your OS configurations and  baremetal flavor you have created.
>  
> Ex:
> 1.       Your physical hardware should contain minimum configurations to run an operating system
> 2.       You need to take care of your Baremetal Flavor created WRT to your available hardware.
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>  
> Thanks
> Shanthakumar K
>  
> From: Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:07 AM
> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> I have been following this doc https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal#Image_Requirements 
> to setup openstack for baremetal provisioning. I have configured oopenstack properly, created an image,
> and now I am ready to enroll my physical hardware. However, there seems to be no mention of how to 
> prepare my physical hardware.
>  
> Does anyone know what is required and what is the process to prepare my hardware?
>  
> Thank you for your help,
> Jake
>  
>  
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