Hardware Requirements

This section describes the hardware requirements and server preparation for a StarlingX R7.0 bare metal Ironic deployment configuration.

Minimum hardware requirements

  • One or more bare metal hosts as Ironic nodes as well as tenant instance node.

  • BMC support on bare metal host and controller node connectivity to the BMC IP address of bare metal hosts.

For controller nodes:

  • Additional NIC port on both controller nodes for connecting to the ironic-provisioning-net.

For worker nodes:

  • If using a flat data network for the Ironic provisioning network, an additional NIC port on one of the worker nodes is required.

  • Alternatively, use a VLAN data network for the Ironic provisioning network and simply add the new data network to an existing interface on the worker node.

  • Additional switch ports / configuration for new ports on controller, worker, and Ironic nodes, for connectivity to the Ironic provisioning network.

BMC configuration of Ironic node(s)

Enable BMC and allocate a static IP, username, and password in the BIOS settings. For example, set:

IP address

10.10.10.126

username

root

password

test123