sahara/doc/source/user/sahara-on-ironic.rst
Luigi Toscano 455b456ad3 doc: light cleanup of the ironic-integration page
Remove the commands required to configure the nodes, the resources
and the flavors and refer to the Ironic documentation instead.

This change also removes the only reference in Sahara to the
old pxe_ipmitool driver, which is going to be removed:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-March/128438.html

Remove also the reference to a bug which was fixed for a (long) while.

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2018-06-08 16:54:01 +02:00

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How to run a Sahara cluster on bare metal servers
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Hadoop clusters are designed to store and analyze extremely large amounts
of unstructured data in distributed computing environments. Sahara enables
you to boot Hadoop clusters in both virtual and bare metal environments.
When Booting Hadoop clusters with Sahara on bare metal servers, you benefit
from the bare metal performance with self-service resource provisioning.
1. Create a new OpenStack environment using Devstack as described
in the :devstack-doc:`Devstack Guide <>`
2. Install Ironic as described in the :ironic-doc:`Ironic Installation Guide
<install/>`
3. Install Sahara as described in the `Sahara Installation Guide
<../install/installation-guide.html>`_
4. Build the Sahara image and prepare it for uploading to Glance:
- Build an image for Sahara plugin with the ``-b`` flag. Use sahara image elements
when building the image. See `<https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/sahara-image-elements>`_
- Convert the qcow2 image format to the raw format. For example:
.. sourcecode:: console
$ qemu-img convert -O raw image-converted.qcow image-converted-from-qcow2.raw
..
- Mount the raw image to the system.
- ``chroot`` to the mounted directory and remove the installed grub.
- Build grub2 from sources and install to ``/usr/sbin``.
- In ``/etc/sysconfig/selinux``, disable selinux ``SELINUX=disabled``
- In the configuration file, set ``onboot=yes`` and ``BOOTPROTO=dhcp``
for every interface.
- Add the configuration files for all interfaces in the
``/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts`` directory.
5. Upload the Sahara disk image to Glance, and register it in the
Sahara Image Registry. Referencing its separate kernel and initramfs images.
6. Configure the bare metal network for the Sahara cluster nodes:
- Add bare metal servers to your environment manually referencing their
IPMI addresses (Ironic does not detect servers), for Ironic to manage
the servers power and network. Also, configure the scheduling
information and add the required flavors. Please check the
:ironic-doc:`Enrollment section of the Ironic installation guide
<install/enrollment.html>`.
7. Launch your Sahara cluster on Ironic from the cluster template:
* Log in to Horizon.
* Go to Data Processing > Node Group Templates.
* Find the templates that belong to the plugin you would like to use
* Update those templates to use 'bare metal' flavor instead of the
default one
* Go to Data Processing > Cluster Templates.
* Click Launch Cluster.
* On the Launch Cluster dialog:
* Specify the bare metal network for cluster nodes
The cluster provisioning time is slower compared to the cluster provisioning
of the same size that runs on VMs. Ironic does real hardware reports which
is time consuming, and the whole root disk is filled from ``/dev/zero`` for
security reasons.
Known limitations:
------------------
* Security groups are not applied.
* Nodes are not isolated by projects.
* VM to Bare Metal network routing is not allowed.
* The user has to specify the count of ironic nodes before Devstack deploys
an OpenStack.
* The user cannot use the same image for several ironic node types.
For example, if there are 3 ironic node types, the user has to create
3 images and 3 flavors.
* Multiple interfaces on a single node are not supported. Devstack configures
only one interface.