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Most of the new hardware comes with UEFI boot mode, which has several
technical advantages over the traditional BIOS system.
Operator inform the boot mode to ironic using the "capabilities" property
of the node. The operator may add a new capability "boot_mode=uefi" or
"boot_mode=bios" in "capabilities" within "properties" of the node.
Add new pxe config options:
- "uefi_pxe_bootfile_name": specify the efi bootloader to be used.
- "uefi_pxe_config_template": specify the respective efi bootloader config
template.
As of now only elilo.efi bootloader is supported.
elilo.efi bootloader requires the configuration file to be named after the
ip-address assigned by the DHCP server.
Implements: blueprint uefi-boot-for-ironic
Co-Authored-By: Jim Rollenhagen <jim@jimrollenhagen.com>
Change-Id: I0ad399b2207d7c66f6887e56470ba553b3c87b53
Ironic
Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
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