The cisco-ucs-standalone
hardware type targets standalone Cisco UCS C
series servers. It enables you to take advantage of CIMC by using
the python SDK.
The CIMC hardware type can use the Ironic Inspector service for in-band inspection of equipment. For more information see the Ironic Inspector documentation.
ImcSdk
is a python SDK for the CIMC HTTP/HTTPS XML API used to control
CIMC.ImcSdk
module¶Note
Install the ImcSdk
module on the Ironic conductor node. Required version is
0.7.2.
Install it:
$ pip install "ImcSdk>=0.7.2"
Add cisco-ucs-standalone
to enabled_hardware_types
in
/etc/ironic/ironic.conf
. For example:
enabled_hardware_types = ipmi,cisco-ucs-standalone
Restart the Ironic conductor service:
For Ubuntu/Debian systems:
$ sudo service ironic-conductor restart
or for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:
$ sudo systemctl restart openstack-ironic-conductor
Nodes configured for CIMC driver should have the driver
property set to
cisco-ucs-standalone
. The following configuration values are also required
in driver_info
:
cimc_address
: IP address or hostname for CIMCcimc_username
: CIMC login user namecimc_password
: CIMC login password for the above CIMC user.deploy_kernel
: Identifier for the deployment kernel e.g. a Glance UUIDdeploy_ramdisk
: Identifier for the deployment ramdisk e.g. a Glance UUIDThe following sequence of commands can be used to enroll a UCS Standalone node.
Create Node:
openstack baremetal node create --driver cisco-ucs-standalone \
--driver-info cimc_address=<CIMC hostname OR ip-address> \
--driver-info cimc_username=<cimc_username> \
--driver-info cimc_password=<cimc_password> \
--driver-info deploy_kernel=<glance_uuid_of_deploy_kernel> \
--driver-info deploy_ramdisk=<glance_uuid_of_deploy_ramdisk> \
--property cpus=<number_of_cpus> \
--property memory_mb=<memory_size_in_MB> \
--property local_gb=<local_disk_size_in_GB> \
--property cpu_arch=<cpu_arch>
The above command ‘openstack baremetal node create’ will return UUID of the node, which is the value of $NODE in the following command.
Associate port with the node created:
openstack baremetal port create --node $NODE <MAC_address_of_Ucs_server's_NIC>
For more information about enrolling nodes see Enrollment in the install guide.
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