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It may be ideal to use local Storage VMs with a VMware ESXi hypervisor. These VMs enlist, but the power type is not detected by MAAS. Commissioning and deployment requires require the "Manual" power type (see next), and requires require manually powering on these VMs (shutdown works).
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When a chassis is powered on for the first time, the Platform Server auto-detects which power mechanism to use when processing them for deployment. Switch the deployment to manual power control (add the --manual flag to the platform deploy command) and then manually power on machines at the right time as they go through the lifecycle if a chassis has IPMI for power control of the chassis but require requires Platform server to ignore IPMI.
When using manual power control, use CLI commands to know when to power on each chassis, so use the -y <system-id> flag, rather than -n <# of nodes>.
Run the deploy command for an individual chassis, using the
--manualflag and the-y <system-id>flag flags.Use the
--state Commissioningflag to know when to turn the chassis on:.Code Block language bash platform list nodes --state Commissioning
Power on the chassis as soon as the chassis appears in the list.
The chassis goes through commissioning after being powered on and then powers itself off.
Use the
--state Deployingflag to know when to power on the chassis for the final time (to deploy the Storage software):Code Block language bash platform list nodes --state Deploying
Power on the chassis for the final time as soon as the chassis appears in the list.
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Tip Use the following CLI command to follow the chassis through its lifecycle stages. |
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platform add bonding-mode --default-bonding-mode "<bonding-mode-to-use>" |
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Note This setting is not retroactive. Changing the default bonding mode only applies to the chassis that are deployed after the default mode is set. |
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active-backup | Active-backup |
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balance-alb | (Platform default) Adaptive load balancing |
802.3ad | IEEE 802.3ad |
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Bonding modes See Network Devices and Priority for details on bonding modes. |
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Assign chassis to subclusters after all chassis have been are deployed and are running.
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platform subcluster assign -y <system-id> --subcluster <subcluster-name> |
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Note Assignment is not immediate. Allow time for every node on the chassis to be migrated to the new subcluster. |
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