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Prerequisites for Bare Metal Instance Deployment

To perform the bare metal instance node verification, you must have installed, deployed and configured the BMS, including:
  • You have configured related software packages, such as tftp-server, ipmi, and syslinux, on the bare metal management node that runs ironic-conductor.
  • You have configured the Compute service on the bare metal management node and set the compute service driver to the Ironic driver.
  • You have uploaded the required images to Glance. The images required for deploying bare metal instances are as follows:
    • Deployment image, including the kernel and temporary file system ramdisk of the deployment image.
    • User image, which includes the complete drive image and partition image. A complete drive image that is commonly used contains partition information and can be used independently. A partition image contains only the content of the root partition and must be used together with the partition image kernel and temporary file system.

The following operations are required to be performed as well:

  • Register the management node of the bare metal instances through the Ironic RESTful API service.
  • Create an instance type for an available bare metal physical server. The instance type is used when Nova provisions instances.