Chapter 2. Deploying HCI hardware This section contains procedures and information about the preparation and configuration of hyperconverged nodes. Prerequisites You have read Deploying an overcloud and Red Hat Ceph Storage in Deploying Red Hat Ceph and OpenStack together with director . 2.1. Cleaning Ceph Storage node disks Ceph Storage OSDs and journal partitions require factory clean disks. All data and metadata must be erased by the Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic) from these disks before installing the Ceph OSD services. You can configure director to delete all disk data and metadata by default by using the Bare Metal Provisioning service. When director is configured to perform this task, the Bare Metal Provisioning service performs an additional step to boot the nodes each time a node is set to available . Warning The Bare Metal Provisioning service uses the wipefs --force --all command. This command deletes all data and metadata on the disk but it does not perform a secure erase. A secure erase takes much longer. Procedure Open /home/stack/undercloud.conf and add the following parameter: Save /home/stack/undercloud.conf . Update the undercloud configuration. 2.2. Registering nodes Register the nodes to enable communication with director. Procedure Create a node inventory JSON file in /home/stack . Enter hardware and power management details for each node. For example: Save the new file. Initialize the stack user: Import the JSON inventory file into director and register nodes Replace <inventory_file> with the name of the file created in the first step. Assign the kernel and ramdisk images to each node: 2.3. Verifying available Red Hat Ceph Storage packages Verify all required packages are available to avoid overcloud deployment failures. 2.3.1. Verifying cephadm package installation Verify the cephadm package is installed on at least one overcloud node. The cephadm package is used to bootstrap the first node of the Ceph Storage cluster. The cephadm package is included in the overcloud-hardened-uefi-full.qcow2 image. The tripleo_cephadm role uses the Ansible package module to ensure it is present in the image. 2.4. Deploying the software image for an HCI environment Nodes configured for an HCI environment must use the overcloud-hardened-uefi-full.qcow2 software image. Using this software image requires a Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) subscription. Procedure Open your /home/stack/templates/overcloud-baremetal-deploy.yaml file. Add or update the image property for nodes that require the overcloud-hardened-uefi-full image. You can set the image to be used on specific nodes, or for all nodes that use a specific role: Specific nodes All nodes configured for a specific role In the roles_data.yaml role definition file, set the rhsm_enforce parameter to False . Run the provisioning command: Pass the overcloud-baremetal-deployed.yaml environment file to the openstack overcloud deploy command. 2.5. Designating nodes for HCI To designate nodes for HCI, you must create a new role file to configure the ComputeHCI role, and configure the bare metal nodes with a resource class for ComputeHCI . Procedure Log in to the undercloud as the stack user. Source the stackrc credentials file: Generate a new roles data file named roles_data.yaml that includes the Controller and ComputeHCI roles: Open roles_data.yaml and ensure that it has the following parameters and sections: Section/Parameter Value Role comment Role: ComputeHCI Role name name: ComputeHCI description HCI role HostnameFormatDefault %stackname%-novaceph-%index% deprecated_nic_config_name ceph.yaml Register the ComputeHCI nodes for the overcloud by adding them to your node definition template, node.json or node.yaml . Inspect the node hardware: Tag each bare metal node that you want to designate for HCI with a custom HCI resource class: Replace <node> with the ID of the bare metal node. Add the ComputeHCI role to your /home/stack/templates/overcloud-baremetal-deploy.yaml file, and define any predictive node placements, resource classes, or other attributes that you want to assign to your nodes: Open the baremetal.yaml file and ensure that it contains the network configuration necessary for HCI. The following is an example configuration: Note Network configuration in the ComputeHCI role contains the storage_mgmt network. CephOSD nodes use this network to make redundant copies of data. The network configuration for the Compute role does not contain this network. See Bare Metal Provisioning for more information. Run the provisioning command: Monitor the provisioning progress in a separate terminal. Note The watch command renews every 2 seconds by default. The -n option sets the renewal timer to a different value. To stop the watch process, enter Ctrl-c . Verification: When provisioning is successful, the node state changes from available to active . Additional resources For more information about registering nodes, see Registering nodes for the overcloud in the Director Installation and Usage guide. For more information about inspecting node hardware, see Creating an inventory of the bare-metal node hardware in the Director Installation and Usage guide. For more information on network configuration in the ComputeHCI role and the storage_mgmt network, see Bare Metal Provisioning . 2.6. Defining the root disk for multi-disk Ceph clusters Ceph Storage nodes typically use multiple disks. Director must identify the root disk in multiple disk configurations. The overcloud image is written to the root disk during the provisioning process. Hardware properties are used to identify the root disk. For more information about properties you can use to identify the root disk, see Section 2.6.1, "Properties that identify the root disk" . Procedure Verify the disk information from the hardware introspection of each node: Replace <node_uuid> with the UUID of the node. Replace <output_file_name> with the name of the file that contains the output of the node introspection. For example, the data for one node might show three disks: Set the root disk for the node by using a unique hardware property: (undercloud)USD openstack baremetal node set --property root_device='{<property_value>}' <node-uuid> Replace <property_value> with the unique hardware property value from the introspection data to use to set the root disk. Replace <node_uuid> with the UUID of the node. Note A unique hardware property is any property from the hardware introspection step that uniquely identifies the disk. For example, the following command uses the disk serial number to set the root disk: (undercloud)USD openstack baremetal node set --property root_device='{"serial": "61866da04f380d001ea4e13c12e36ad6"}' 1a4e30da-b6dc-499d-ba87-0bd8a3819bc0 Configure the BIOS of each node to first boot from the network and then the root disk. Director identifies the specific disk to use as the root disk. When you run the openstack overcloud node provision command, director provisions and writes the overcloud image to the root disk. 2.6.1. Properties that identify the root disk There are several properties that you can define to help director identify the root disk: model (String): Device identifier. vendor (String): Device vendor. serial (String): Disk serial number. hctl (String): Host:Channel:Target:Lun for SCSI. size (Integer): Size of the device in GB. wwn (String): Unique storage identifier. wwn_with_extension (String): Unique storage identifier with the vendor extension appended. wwn_vendor_extension (String): Unique vendor storage identifier. rotational (Boolean): True for a rotational device (HDD), otherwise false (SSD). name (String): The name of the device, for example: /dev/sdb1. Important Use the name property for devices with persistent names. Do not use the name property to set the root disk for devices that do not have persistent names because the value can change when the node boots.

Commands:
clean_nodes=true
openstack undercloud install
{ "nodes":[ { "mac":[ "b1:b1:b1:b1:b1:b1" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.205" }, { "mac":[ "b2:b2:b2:b2:b2:b2" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.206" }, { "mac":[ "b3:b3:b3:b3:b3:b3" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.207" }, { "mac":[ "c1:c1:c1:c1:c1:c1" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.208" }, { "mac":[ "c2:c2:c2:c2:c2:c2" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.209" }, { "mac":[ "c3:c3:c3:c3:c3:c3" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.210" }, { "mac":[ "d1:d1:d1:d1:d1:d1" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.211" }, { "mac":[ "d2:d2:d2:d2:d2:d2" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.212" }, { "mac":[ "d3:d3:d3:d3:d3:d3" ], "cpu":"4", "memory":"6144", "disk":"40", "arch":"x86_64", "pm_type":"ipmi", "pm_user":"admin", "pm_password":"p@55w0rd!", "pm_addr":"192.0.2.213" } ] }
source ~/stackrc
openstack overcloud node import <inventory_file>
openstack overcloud node configure <node>
- name: Ceph count: 3 instances: - hostname: overcloud-ceph-0 name: node00 image: href: file:///var/lib/ironic/images/overcloud-minimal.qcow2 - hostname: overcloud-ceph-1 name: node01 image: href: file:///var/lib/ironic/images/overcloud-hardened-uefi-full.qcow2 - hostname: overcloud-ceph-2 name: node02 image: href: file:///var/lib/ironic/images/overcloud-hardened-uefi-full.qcow2
- name: ComputeHCI count: 3 defaults: image: href: file:///var/lib/ironic/images/overcloud-hardened-uefi-full.qcow2 instances: - hostname: overcloud-ceph-0 name: node00 - hostname: overcloud-ceph-1 name: node01 - hostname: overcloud-ceph-2 name: node02
rhsm_enforce: False
(undercloud)USD openstack overcloud node provision --stack overcloud --output /home/stack/templates/overcloud-baremetal-deployed.yaml /home/stack/templates/overcloud-baremetal-deploy.yaml
[stack@director ~]USD source ~/stackrc
(undercloud)USD openstack overcloud roles generate Controller ComputeHCI -o ~/roles_data.yaml
(undercloud)USD openstack overcloud node introspect --all-manageable --provide
(undercloud)USD openstack baremetal node set --resource-class baremetal.HCI <node>
- name: Controller count: 3 - name: ComputeHCI count: 1 defaults: resource_class: baremetal.HCI
- name: ComputeHCI count: 3 hostname_format: compute-hci-%index% defaults: profile: ComputeHCI network_config: template: /home/stack/templates/three-nics-vlans/compute-hci.j2 networks: - network: ctlplane vif: true - network: external subnet: external_subnet - network: internalapi subnet: internal_api_subnet01 - network: storage subnet: storage_subnet01 - network: storage_mgmt subnet: storage_mgmt_subnet01 - network: tenant subnet: tenant_subnet01
(undercloud)USD openstack overcloud node provision --stack overcloud --output /home/stack/templates/overcloud-baremetal-deployed.yaml /home/stack/templates/overcloud-baremetal-deploy.yaml
(undercloud)USD watch openstack baremetal node list
(undercloud)USD openstack baremetal introspection data save <node_uuid> | --file <output_file_name>
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