Add a bare metal node

Create a bare metal node

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Cloud O&M, and then select Infrastructure > Bare Metal Resource Pools from the left navigation pane.

  1. Click Create.

  1. Configure the parameters as required. Select Managed if you do not want to reinstall the system when you deploy a bare metal node. Do not select Managed if you do not want to reinstall the system when you deploy a bare metal node.

Table-1 Configuring parameters

Item

Description

IPMI Address

Required. Enter the IPMI IP address of the server. This address must be unique.

IPMI User

Required. Enter the IPMI username for logging in to the server.

IPMI Password

Required. Enter the IPMI password for logging in to the server.

Server Model

Optional. Enter the model of the server.

Managed

Optional. Configure whether to incorporate the bare metal node.

 

  1. Click Create.

  1. Click the refresh icon. If the bare metal node is in manageable state, it has been created successfully.

Import bare metal nodes

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Cloud O&M, and then select Infrastructure > Bare Metal Resource Pools from the left navigation pane.

  1. Click Import.

  1. On the page that opens, click Download Template in the upper right corner of the page.

  1. Open the downloaded template, and enter the information as described in Table-2.

  1. Click Select File, and then select the saved configuration file, in the CSV format.

  1. Review the information in the template, and then click Import.

Table-2 Filling information in the template

Item

Description

IPMI Address

Required. Enter the IPMI IP address of the server. This address must be unique.

IPMI User

Required. Enter the IPMI username for logging in to the server.

IPMI Password

Required. Enter the IPMI password for logging in to the server.

Server Model

Optional. Enter the model of the server.

User

Required. Enter the name of the user to which the bare metal instance belongs (user name specified on the Cloud O&M > Organization > Users page). The user can see the instance being created on the Cloud Services > Compute & Storage > Bare Metal page. If you leave this field empty, the bare metal instance belongs to the current user.

AZ

Required. AZ to which the bare metal server belongs.

Host Name

Required. Enter the host name of the operating system. This name will also be used as the name of the bare metal instance.

Administrator Name

Required. Enter the name of the administrator. Enter root for a Linux operating system.

Administrator Password

Required. Password used for logging in to the operating system after the instance is created successfully.

Image Name

Required. Enter the name of the image created for creating the bare metal instance.

Management Network

Required. Enter the management network you created. The network name must start with ironicMagNet, and must be a shared network.

Management Network IP

Required. Specify a management network address. It must be an available IP in the management IP address pool.

Management Network VLAN ID

Optional. Enter the VLAN ID (segment ID) of the management network. If you leave this field empty, no VLAN ID is deployed to the management network.

Service Network 1

Optional. The following restrictions and guidelines apply to all service networks 1, 2, and 3:

  • In a multi-tenant network, both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported, and the IP address field is optional.

  • SLAAC and DHCPv6-Stateless IPv6 addresses cannot be manually specified.

  • You must specify an IPv4 address for the management network in the flat networking scenario.

  • You can specify both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for a service network. The IP address field is required.

  • If you do not configure a service network, leave all the four fields empty. If you configure a service network but do not require aggregation, specify a service network, a service network IP, and NICs. If you require aggregation, specify all the four fields.

  • Seven bonding modes mode0 to mode6 are available. You can select one as needed.

  • Enter the NIC name learned by the image tool when discovering nodes. You can view the NIC name on the NIC settings page. After a bare metal compute node is deployed successfully, two image tools named BareMetal**** will be displayed on the bare metal service page. The system can obtain hardware information such as CPU and NIC about the bare metal node only through the image tools.

Service Network 1 IP

Network 1 Bonding Mode

Service Network 1 Bond NIC

Service Network 2

Service Network 2 IP

Service Network 2 Bonding Mode

Service Network 2 Bond NIC

Service Network 3

Service Network 3 IP

Service Network 3 Bonding Mode

Gateway

Optional. Options are 0, 1, 2, and 3. 0 represents the management network's gateway. 1 represents service network 1's gateway. 2 represents service network 2's gateway. 3 represents service network 3's gateway.

Remarks

Optional.

Tenancy

Required. Specify the tenancy of the bare metal node.

Managed

Optional. Configure whether to incorporate the bare metal node. If you leave this field empty, the bare metal node will not be incorporated.