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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 ============== |