Dear xcat-users,
I am new to xCAT and I encounter a problem when I try to deploy the nodes.
Basically, the installer does not start.
Here's my setup:
- a virtual machine bridged on the management network that hosts xCAT 2.11
- 48 Dell compute nodes connected to the management network
- a iDRAC service network configured to be used through IPMI
I used the following documentation
http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start/
I have manually declared my nodes (knowing MAC address of management
interface) and run the network tools to update the configuration
(makehosts, makedns, makedhcp, makentp).
I created an system image using
copycds -n centos7 CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso
and my nodes are configured to use it.
I am able to get/set node status via BMC
$ rpower newton-f-01 state
newton-f-01: on
$ rsetboot newton-f-01 net
newton-f-01: Network
When I power up the nodes, I can follow via the console the deployment
and it acquires the correct IP address,
retrieve the genesis operating system but installation does not start.
$ nodestat newton-f-01
newton-f-01: sshd
I can connect to the node via SSH.
$ ssh root@newton-f-01
[xCAT Genesis running on newton-f-01 /]# uname -r
2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64
or xdsh:
$ xdsh fat date
newton-f-01: Wed Feb 10 10:33:36 UTC 2016
newton-f-02: Wed Feb 10 10:33:36 UTC 2016
I probably missed a step to tell the Genesis operating system to launch
the install but I haven't found how to do it.
Below follow some configuration informations.
*xCAT version*
$ lsxcatd -a
Version 2.11 (git commit 9ea36ca6163392bf9ab684830217f017193815be, built
Mon Nov 30 05:43:11 EST 2015)
This is a Management Node
dbengine=SQLite
*OSimage details*
$ lsdef -t osimage centos7-x86_64-install-compute
Object name: centos7-x86_64-install-compute
imagetype=linux
osarch=x86_64
osdistroname=centos7-x86_64
osname=Linux
osvers=centos7
otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/centos7/x86_64
pkgdir=/install/centos7/x86_64
pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/compute.centos7.pkglist
profile=compute
provmethod=install
template=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/compute.centos7.tmpl
*A node example
*$ lsdef newton-f-01
Object name: newton-f-01
bmc=10.90.20.1
bmcpassword=XXXXX
bmcusername=root
groups=fat,all
ip=172.16.20.1
mac=00:8C:FA:F7:0E:BC
mgt=ipmi
netboot=xbna
postbootscripts=otherpkgs
postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles
primarynic=eth0
provmethod=centos7-x86_64-install-compute
status=powering-off
statustime=02-09-2016 18:14:27*
*
Thanks in advance if you can give me a solution or a pointer to a link
that explains how to solve that.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards,
Laurent Pouilloux
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