openstack-manuals/doc/config-reference/compute/section_hypervisor_baremetal.xml
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xml:id="baremetal">
<title>Bare metal driver</title>
<para>The baremetal driver is a hypervisor driver for OpenStack Nova
Compute. Within the OpenStack framework, it has the same role as the
drivers for other hypervisors (libvirt, xen, etc), and yet it is
presently unique in that the hardware is not virtualized - there is no
hypervisor between the tenants and the physical hardware. It exposes
hardware through the OpenStack APIs, using pluggable sub-drivers to deliver
machine imaging (PXE) and power control (IPMI). With this, provisioning
and management of physical hardware is accomplished by using common cloud
APIs and tools, such as OpenStack Orchestration or salt-cloud.
However, due to this unique
situation, using the baremetal driver requires some additional
preparation of its environment, the details of which are beyond the
scope of this guide.</para>
<note><para>Some OpenStack Compute features are not implemented by
the baremetal hypervisor driver. See the <link
xlink:href="http://wiki.openstack.org/HypervisorSupportMatrix">
hypervisor support matrix</link> for details.</para></note>
<para>For the Baremetal driver to be loaded and function properly,
ensure that the following options are set in
<filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename> on your <systemitem
class="service">nova-compute</systemitem> hosts.</para>
<programlisting language="ini">[default]
compute_driver=nova.virt.baremetal.driver.BareMetalDriver
firewall_driver = nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver
scheduler_host_manager=nova.scheduler.baremetal_host_manager.BaremetalHostManager
ram_allocation_ratio=1.0
reserved_host_memory_mb=0</programlisting>
<para>Many configuration options are specific to the
Baremetal driver. Also, some additional steps are
required, such as building the baremetal deploy ramdisk. See
the <link
xlink:href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal">main wiki page</link> for details and implementation suggestions.
</para>
<xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-baremetal.xml"/>
</section>