MEP-15: HAL Improvements. #122
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@izvyk Maybe this MEP is interesting for you to review. I would like to hear your feedback about it. Are you interested in taking a look? |
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| After a server is mounted in a rack in the data center, the BMC of a server gets connected to a management switch. The BMC obtains an IP address via DHCP broadcast from a DNS server, typically running on an mgmt-server in the data center partition. Then, the metal-bmc periodically checks the DHCP lease list in order to discover new BMCs or update existing ones. |
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If I understand correctly, the IP is obtained via DHCP from the management server, which hosts both the DNS and DHCP services. I suggest clarifying that a bit.
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The DNS server is not always present, it's just used for another component called metal-image-cache, which syncs OS images into the partition in order to speed up machine provisioning and gain independence from the internet.
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I added a reference to what a mgmt-server is now.
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Thanks a lot for reading and your sensible inputs. I tried to integrate your points.
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| After a server is mounted in a rack in the data center, the BMC of a server gets connected to a management switch. The BMC obtains an IP address via DHCP broadcast from a DNS server, typically running on an mgmt-server in the data center partition. Then, the metal-bmc periodically checks the DHCP lease list in order to discover new BMCs or update existing ones. |
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The DNS server is not always present, it's just used for another component called metal-image-cache, which syncs OS images into the partition in order to speed up machine provisioning and gain independence from the internet.
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Re-raising this from metal-stack/docs-archive#232. Existing comments are hard to carry over. :(