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" <shanthakuma...@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_jungl...@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 12:15 PM
> To: K, Shanthakumar
> Cc: openstack@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" <shanthakuma...@hp.com>
> To: Jake G. <dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com> 
> Cc: "openstack@lists.openstack.org" <openstack@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_jungl...@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:54 AM
> To: K, Shanthakumar
> Cc: openstack@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" <shanthakuma...@hp.com>
> To: Jake G. <dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com> 
> Cc: "openstack@lists.openstack.org" <openstack@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.
>                
>  
> Thanks
> Shanthakumar K
>  
> From: Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:07 AM
> To: openstack@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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