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[John Paul Walters <jwalters@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Trinath,

It's not clear whether the tilera board you're referring to is one of the PCI versions or a stand-alone board (is it in Essex-1?).  We've never setup/tested anything other than the TILEmpower stand-alone board with our bare-metal provisioning service.  That said, in order to make your nova-compute on Essex-2, you need to configure nova.conf as I described earlier: set the connection_type=baremetal, set the baremetal_driver=tilera, and set your path to tile-monitor appropriately.  That's what makes it a proxy node, which is otherwise run as a regular nova-compute.  

JP


On Jul 2, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Trinath Somanchi wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> Thanks a lot for the reply JP.
> 
> The information provided is of most value for me.
> 
> I have a doubt here. 
> 
> I will install Nova-compute in a server say Essex-1 and another server say Essex-2.
> 
> I have a tilera board too in the setup.
> 
> Can you please guide me on how to start this tilera board using Nova-compute in Essex-1 machine. and How Nova-compute in Essex-2 can be made as Proxy-Nova-compute. I mean what changes to Nova-compute makes Proxy nova-compute.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:32 PM, John Paul Walters <jwalters@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Trinath,
> 
> Our baremetal experts are on vacation for the next week or so, so I'll take a stab at answering in their absence.  First, just to be clear, right now the baremetal work that's present in Essex supports ONLY the Tilera architecture.  We're working with the NTT folks to add additional support, but it's not in Essex.  We've tested on TILEmpower rack-mountable units.  You'll need a baremetal proxy (x86) machine that will run nova-compute and handle the provisioning of resources.  Most of the nova.conf options are shown at:
> 
> http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/admin/content/compute-options-reference.html
> 
> But it appears that there's at least one omission:  you'll need to set your --connection_type=baremetal on the proxy node.  Probably the most important options are: --baremetal_driver=tilera, --tile_monitor=</path/to/tile-monitor/>.  I would suggest that you have a look at the link above under the baremetal section to see what other options might apply to your environment.  
> 
> http://wiki.openstack.org/HeterogeneousTileraSupport
> 
> Note that you'll need to set up tftp so that the Tilera boards can pick up a boot rom. You'll also need to create a tilera-specific file system.  
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> best,
> JP
> 
> 
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Trinath Somanchi wrote:
> 
>> Hi-
>> 
>> Please help me in understanding and bringing up this kind of setup....
>> 
>> Kindly please help me in this regard.
>> 
>> I have checked nova.conf and found bare metal provisioning support options.
>> 
>> Please help me understand on how modifying nova.conf with the respective options can help bringing up tilera like machines up either from command line or from GUI.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance..
>> 
>> --
>> Trinath S
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>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Trinath Somanchi <trinath.somanchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi-
>> 
>> As explained in the email, With respect to the link, 
>> 
>> http://wiki.openstack.org/GeneralBareMetalProvisioningFramework
>> 
>> Can you kindly guide/brief me on https://github.com/usc-isi/essex-baremetal-support (Stable/Essex) 
>> 
>> I mean Install/Config/Testing of the Provisioning support.
>> 
>> Thanking you,
>> 
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