Appendix B. Power Management Drivers

DRAC is an interface that provides out-of-band remote management features including power management and server monitoring.

iLO from Hewlett-Packard is an interface that provides out-of-band remote management features including power management and server monitoring.

UCS from Cisco is a data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources. This driver focuses on the power management for bare metal systems connected to the UCS.

Fujitsu’s iRMC is a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) with integrated LAN connection and extended functionality. This driver focuses on the power management for bare metal systems connected to the iRMC.

The director can use virtual machines as nodes on a KVM host. It controls their power management through emulated IPMI devices. This allows you to use the standard IPMI parameters from Section 6.1, “Registering Nodes for the Overcloud” but for virtual nodes.

$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-openstack-12-rpms
$ sudo yum install -y python-virtualbmc

Create a virtual baseboard management controller (BMC) for each virtual machine using the vbmc command. For example, if you aim to create a BMC for virtual machines named Node01 and Node02, run the following commands:

$ vbmc add Node01 --port 6230 --username admin --password p455w0rd!
$ vbmc add Node02 --port 6231 --username admin --password p455w0rd!

This defines the port to access each BMC and sets each BMC’s authentication details.

Start each BMC with the following commands:

$ vbmc start Node01
$ vbmc start Node02

For example:

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "pm_type": "pxe_ipmitool",
      "mac": [
        "aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa"
      ],
      "pm_user": "admin",
      "pm_password": "p455w0rd!",
      "pm_addr": "192.168.0.1",
      "pm_port": "6230",
      "name": "Node01"
    },
    {
      "pm_type": "pxe_ipmitool",
      "mac": [
        "bb:bb:bb:bb:bb:bb"
      ],
      "pm_user": "admin",
      "pm_password": "p455w0rd!",
      "pm_addr": "192.168.0.1",
      "pm_port": "6231",
      "name": "Node02"
    }
  ]
}

openstack baremetal node set Node01 \
    --driver pxe_ipmitool \
    --driver-info ipmi_address=192.168.0.1 \
    --driver-info ipmi_port=6230 \
    --driver-info ipmi_username="admin" \
    --driver-info ipmi_password="p455w0rd!"

This driver provides a method to use bare metal devices without power management. This means the director does not control the registered bare metal devices and as such require manual control of power at certain points in the introspect and deployment processes.