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| author | Ruby Loo <ruby.loo@intel.com> | 2017-08-15 16:00:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Ruby Loo <ruby.loo@intel.com> | 2017-08-16 15:59:05 -0400 |
| commit | 888610f43ac328de9850b3edae96e83b42c7611f (patch) | |
| tree | e5884d6f0a7c44aed45bbcfc98493a99b6bbd6e3 | |
| parent | b5b1e37fc1741b884d6a2b919a1fce26cab21c55 (diff) | |
| download | ironic-888610f43ac328de9850b3edae96e83b42c7611f.tar.gz | |
[releasenotes] update irmc's boot-from-volume support
This removes a lot of information from the release notes, since it was
too verbose. Instead, it links to the iRMC driver documentation that
includes the details of this feature.
This is a follow up to 70530f9a668af6d59a3e72c230592a4b0dc2a1b8
Change-Id: I6d25baf1e89a95734316c663cd0961399436ab9e
Partial-Bug: #1677436
| -rw-r--r-- | releasenotes/notes/irmc-boot-from-volume-4bc5d20a0a780669.yaml | 36 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/irmc-boot-from-volume-4bc5d20a0a780669.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/irmc-boot-from-volume-4bc5d20a0a780669.yaml index 9f8b1ef0d..6554f1546 100644 --- a/releasenotes/notes/irmc-boot-from-volume-4bc5d20a0a780669.yaml +++ b/releasenotes/notes/irmc-boot-from-volume-4bc5d20a0a780669.yaml @@ -1,37 +1,7 @@ --- features: - | - Adds support for booting from remote volumes to ``irmc-virtual-media`` + Adds support for booting from remote volumes via the ``irmc-virtual-media`` boot interface. It enables boot configuration for iSCSI or FibreChannel - via out-of-band network. - - In addition to the same configuration as generic boot-from-volume, this - interface requires the following settings. - - * It is necessary to set a physical port ID to network ports and volume - connectors. All cards including those not used for volume boot should be - registered. - - * A physical ID format is: ``<Card Type><Slot No>-<Port No>`` - - ``<Card Type>`` - LAN, FC or CNA - ``<Slot No>`` - 0 indicates onboard slot. Use 1 to 9 for addon slots. - ``<Port No>`` - A port number starting from 1. - - * Set the IDs to ``node.driver_info.pci_physical_ids``. This parameter - is a list of pair of UUID of a resource (Port or Volume connector) - and a physical ID like: - - pci_physical_ids = 1ecd14ee-c191-4007-8413-16bb5d5a73a2:LAN0-1,1ecd14ee-c191-4007-8413-16bb5d5a73a2:CNA1-1 - - * For iSCSI, volume connectors with both type ``iqn`` and ``ip`` are - required. The configuration with DHCP is not supported yet. - - * For iSCSI, a subnet mask of the storage network is necessary. It should - be set to ``node.driver_info.storage_network_size`` as integer. - - This feature requires specific FC cards or CNAs (Converged Network Adapter). - See the documentation of iRMC driver for details. + via out-of-band network. For details, see the `iRMC driver documentation + <https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/drivers/irmc.html#boot-from-remote-volume>`_. |