Chapter 5. Mapping storage management network ports to NICs

Procedure

1. Copy the compute.yaml heat template file for your environment from the /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/network/config directory. The following options are available:

   • single-nic-vlans
   • single-nic-linux-bridge-vlans
   • multiple-nics

   • bond-with-vlans

     See the README.md in each template’s directory for details on the NIC configuration.

2. Create a new directory within `~/templates called nic-configs.
3. Paste your copy of the compute.yaml template into ~/templates/nic-configs/ and rename it to compute-hci.yaml.

4. Check the parameters: section of ~/templates/nic-configs/compute-hci.yaml for the following definition:

   StorageMgmtNetworkVlanID:
     default: 40
     description: Vlan ID for the storage mgmt network traffic.
     type: number

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   Add the StorageMgmtNetworkVlanID definition if it is not already in the compute-hci.yaml file.

5. Map StorageMgmtNetworkVlanID to a specific NIC on each HCI node. For example, if you chose to trunk VLANs to a single NIC, then add the following entry to the network_config: section of ~/templates/nic-configs/compute-hci.yaml:

             type: vlan
             device: em2
             mtu: 9000
             use_dhcp: false
             vlan_id: {get_param: StorageMgmtNetworkVlanID}
             addresses:
               -
                 ip_netmask: {get_param: StorageMgmtIpSubnet}

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   Note

   Set MTU to 9000 (jumbo frames) when mapping a NIC to StorageMgmtNetworkVlanID to improve the performance of Red Hat Ceph Storage. For more information, see Configure MTU Settings in Director and Configuring jumbo frames.

6. Create a networking environment file called ~/templates/network.yaml.

7. Add the following configuration to the network.yaml file:

   resource_registry:
   OS::TripleO::ComputeHCI::Net::SoftwareConfig: /home/stack/templates/nic-configs/compute-hci.yaml

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   This file will be used later to invoke the customized Compute NIC template (~/templates/nic-configs/compute-hci.yaml) during overcloud deployment.