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| author | Shivanand Tendulker <stendulker@gmail.com> | 2016-03-23 03:04:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Shivanand Tendulker <stendulker@gmail.com> | 2016-03-23 04:45:43 -0700 |
| commit | 797e6f20e0f875e663320aee3f05a5491c3c784d (patch) | |
| tree | 1ddff4a078c27e9d2e637b3d96ad5a77f746ebb7 | |
| parent | a188a313650266cb3103e60702d0505557d8ea88 (diff) | |
| download | ironic-5.1.0.tar.gz | |
Documentation update for partition image support5.1.0
Removed note that indicated agent drivers do not support
deploying partition images.
Updated iLO documentation indicating support for partition
images for agent_ilo driver.
Change-Id: I2349604344328222db5b981fa9d75523d21a5186
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/drivers/ilo.rst | 16 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst b/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst index a05fe332b..ceb8f14af 100644 --- a/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst +++ b/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst @@ -1386,11 +1386,6 @@ bare metal node to be deployed with when Ironic is responsible for partitioning the disk; therefore choosing the disk label does not apply when the image being deployed is a ``whole disk image``. -.. note:: - At present the agent_* drivers do not support deploying partition - images, therefore forcing the disk label for those drivers is not - possible. - There are some edge cases where someone may want to choose a specific disk label for the images being deployed, including but not limited to: diff --git a/doc/source/drivers/ilo.rst b/doc/source/drivers/ilo.rst index 14dd7daf7..b807eafa5 100644 --- a/doc/source/drivers/ilo.rst +++ b/doc/source/drivers/ilo.rst @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ it from data channel which is used for deployment. ``iscsi_ilo`` and ``agent_ilo`` drivers use deployment ramdisk built from ``diskimage-builder``. The ``iscsi_ilo`` driver deploys from ironic conductor and supports both net-boot and local-boot of instance. -``agent_ilo`` deploys from bare metal node and always does local-boot. +``agent_ilo`` deploys from bare metal node and supports both net-boot +and local-boot of instance. ``pxe_ilo`` driver uses PXE/iSCSI for deployment (just like normal PXE driver) and deploys from ironic conductor. Additionally it supports automatic setting of @@ -378,7 +379,9 @@ Features * Remote Console * HW Sensors * IPA runs on the bare metal node and pulls the image directly from swift. -* IPA deployed instances always boots from local disk. +* Supports booting the instance from virtual media (netboot) as well as booting + locally from disk. By default, the instance will always boot from virtual + media for partition images. * Segregates management info from data channel. * UEFI Boot Support * UEFI Secure Boot Support @@ -948,11 +951,10 @@ intermediate images on conductor as described in Deploy Process ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -``iscsi_ilo`` supports both netboot and localboot, while ``agent_ilo`` supports -only localboot. Refer to `Netboot in standalone ironic`_ and -`Localboot in standalone ironic`_ for details of deploy process -for netboot and localboot respectively. For ``pxe_ilo``, the deploy process -is same as native ``pxe_ipmitool`` driver. +``iscsi_ilo`` and ``agent_ilo`` supports both netboot and localboot. Refer +to `Netboot in standalone ironic`_ and `Localboot in standalone ironic`_ +for details of deploy process for netboot and localboot respectively. +For ``pxe_ilo``, the deploy process is same as native ``pxe_ipmitool`` driver. Deploy Process ============== |