In the future, the Bare Metal service will stop supporting classic drivers and will only support hardware types. Please see Enabling drivers and hardware types for the detailed explanation of the difference between these two types of drivers.
It is necessary to figure out which hardware types and hardware interfaces correspond to which classic drivers used in your deployment. Use the following table:
Classic Driver | Hardware Type | Boot | Deploy | Management | Power |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
pxe_ilo | ilo | ilo-pxe | iscsi | ilo | ilo |
agent_ilo | ilo | ilo-virtual-media | direct | ilo | ilo |
iscsi_ilo | ilo | ilo-virtual-media | iscsi | ilo | ilo |
pxe_ipmitool | ipmi | pxe | iscsi | ipmitool | ipmitool |
agent_ipmitool | ipmi | pxe | direct | ipmitool | ipmitool |
pxe_irmc | irmc | irmc-pxe | iscsi | irmc | irmc |
iscsi_irmc | irmc | irmc-virtual-media | iscsi | irmc | irmc |
agent_irmc | irmc | irmc-virtual-media | direct | irmc | irmc |
Warning
This table does not currently cover hardware interfaces other than boot, deploy, management and power.
Note
For out-of-tree drivers you may need to reach out to their maintainers or figure out the appropriate interfaces by researching the source code.
You will need to enable hardware types and interfaces that correspond to your
currently enabled classic drivers. For example, if you have the following
configuration in your ironic.conf
:
[DEFAULT]
enabled_drivers = pxe_ipmitool,agent_ipmitool
You will have to add this configuration as well:
[DEFAULT]
enabled_hardware_types = ipmi
enabled_boot_interfaces = pxe
enabled_deploy_interfaces = iscsi,direct
enabled_management_interfaces = ipmitool
enabled_power_interfaces = ipmitool
Note
For every interface type there is an option
default_<INTERFACE>_interface
, where <INTERFACE>
is the interface
type name. For example, one can make all nodes use the direct
deploy
method by default by setting:
[DEFAULT]
default_deploy_interface = direct
After the required items are enabled in the configuration, each node’s
driver
field has to be updated to a new value. You may need to also
set new values for some or all interfaces:
export OS_BAREMETAL_API_VERSION=1.31
for uuid in $(openstack baremetal node list --driver pxe_ipmitool -f value -c UUID); do
openstack baremetal node set $uuid --driver ipmi --deploy-interface iscsi
done
for uuid in $(openstack baremetal node list --driver agent_ipmitool -f value -c UUID); do
openstack baremetal node set $uuid --driver ipmi --deploy-interface direct
done
See Enrollment for more details on setting hardware types and interfaces.
Warning
It is not recommended to change the interfaces for active
nodes. If
absolutely needed, the nodes have to be put in the maintenance mode first:
openstack baremetal node maintenance set $UUID \
--reason "Changing driver and/or hardware interfaces"
# do the update, validate its correctness
openstack baremetal node maintenance unset $UUID
Care has to be taken to migrate from classic drivers using non-default interfaces. This chapter covers a few of the most commonly used.
Some classic drivers, notably pxe_ipmitool
, agent_ipmitool
and
pxe_drac_inspector
, use ironic-inspector for their inspect interface.
The same functionality is available for all hardware types, but the appropriate
inspect
interface has to be enabled in the Bare Metal service configuration
file, for example:
[DEFAULT]
enabled_inspect_interfaces = inspector,no-inspect
See Enabling drivers and hardware types for more details.
Note
The configuration option [inspector]enabled
does not affect hardware
types.
Then you can tell your nodes to use this interface, for example:
export OS_BAREMETAL_API_VERSION=1.31
for uuid in $(openstack baremetal node list --driver ipmi -f value -c UUID); do
openstack baremetal node set $uuid --inspect-interface inspector
done
Note
A node configured with the IPMI hardware type, will use the inspector inspection implementation automatically if it is enabled. This is not the case for the most of the vendor drivers.
Several classic drivers, notably pxe_ipmitool_socat
and
agent_ipmitool_socat
, use socat-based serial console implementation.
For the ipmi
hardware type it is used by default, if enabled in the
configuration file:
[DEFAULT]
enabled_console_interfaces = ipmitool-socat,no-console
If you want to use the shellinabox
implementation instead, it has to be
enabled as well:
[DEFAULT]
enabled_console_interfaces = ipmitool-shellinabox,no-console
Then you need to update some or all nodes to use it explicitly. For example, to update all nodes use:
export OS_BAREMETAL_API_VERSION=1.31
for uuid in $(openstack baremetal node list --driver ipmi -f value -c UUID); do
openstack baremetal node set $uuid --console-interface ipmitool-shellinabox
done
Many classic drivers, including pxe_ipmitool
and agent_ipmitool
use
the IPA-based in-band RAID implementation by default.
For the hardware types it is not used by default. To use it, you need to enable it in the configuration first:
[DEFAULT]
enabled_raid_interfaces = agent,no-raid
Then you can update those nodes that support in-band RAID to use the agent
RAID interface. For example, to update all nodes use:
export OS_BAREMETAL_API_VERSION=1.31
for uuid in $(openstack baremetal node list --driver ipmi -f value -c UUID); do
openstack baremetal node set $uuid --raid-interface agent
done
Note
The ability of a node to use the agent
RAID interface depends on
the ramdisk (more specifically, a hardware manager used in it),
not on the driver.
The network and storage interfaces have always been dynamic, and thus do not require any special treatment during upgrade.
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