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authorkesper <paresh.sao@hpe.com>2019-09-04 09:05:12 +0000
committerJulia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com>2020-06-04 10:55:44 -0700
commitf30d2f3485e2485ee67d5ace8a65dd77bb360430 (patch)
treedbf21a199d2a4553b0b97681981fed47ca401326
parent364312c8ec2e0404285d98b850d49f2f53fea5b4 (diff)
downloadironic-f30d2f3485e2485ee67d5ace8a65dd77bb360430.tar.gz
Follow-up patch for ilo out-of-band `erase_devices`
This commit addresses comments on Out-of-band 'erase_devices' clean step patch for proliant servers. Change-Id: I3932304ec504965a99d75a18e9fc758890aeea68
-rw-r--r--ironic/conf/ilo.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ironic/conf/ilo.py b/ironic/conf/ilo.py
index 177f31369..5baaf3d4a 100644
--- a/ironic/conf/ilo.py
+++ b/ironic/conf/ilo.py
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ opts = [
help=_('Interval (in seconds) between periodic erase-devices '
'status checks to determine whether the asynchronous '
'out-of-band erase-devices was successfully finished or '
- 'not.')),
+ 'not. On an average, a 300GB HDD with default pattern '
+ '"overwrite" would take approximately 9 hours and '
+ '300GB SSD with default pattern "block" would take '
+ 'approx. 30 seconds to complete sanitize disk erase.')),
cfg.StrOpt('ca_file',
help=_('CA certificate file to validate iLO.')),
cfg.StrOpt('default_boot_mode',