Chapter 2. Preparing Overcloud Nodes

1. Create the following pools in your Ceph cluster relevant to your environment:

   • volumes: Storage for OpenStack Block Storage (cinder)
   • images: Storage for OpenStack Image Storage (glance)
   • vms: Storage for instances
   • backups: Storage for OpenStack Block Storage Backup (cinder-backup)

   • metrics: Storage for OpenStack Telemetry Metrics (gnocchi)

     Use the following commands as a guide:

     [root@ceph ~]# ceph osd pool create volumes PGNUM
     [root@ceph ~]# ceph osd pool create images PGNUM
     [root@ceph ~]# ceph osd pool create vms PGNUM
     [root@ceph ~]# ceph osd pool create backups PGNUM
     [root@ceph ~]# ceph osd pool create metrics PGNUM

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     Replace PGNUM with the number of placement groups. We recommend approximately 100 per OSD. For example, the total number of OSDs multiplied by 100 divided by the number of replicas (osd pool default size). You can also use the Ceph Placement Groups (PGs) per Pool Calculator to determine a suitable value.

2. Create a client.openstack user in your Ceph cluster with the following capabilities:

   • cap_mgr: “allow *”
   • cap_mon: profile rbd

   • cap_osd: profile rbd pool=volumes, profile rbd pool=vms, profile rbd pool=images, profile rbd pool=backups, profile rbd pool=metrics

     Use the following command as a guide:

     [root@ceph ~]# ceph auth add client.openstack mgr 'allow *' mon 'profile rbd' osd 'profile rbd pool=volumes, profile rbd pool=vms, profile rbd pool=images, profile rbd pool=backups, profile rbd pool=metrics'

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3. Note the Ceph client key created for the client.openstack user:

   [root@ceph ~]# ceph auth list
   ...
   [client.openstack]
   	key = AQC+vYNXgDAgAhAAc8UoYt+OTz5uhV7ItLdwUw==
   	caps mgr = "allow *"
   	caps mon = "profile rbd"
   	caps osd = "profile rbd pool=volumes, profile rbd pool=vms, profile rbd pool=images, profile rbd pool=backups, profile rbd pool=metrics"
   ...

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1. Finally, note the file system ID of your Ceph Storage cluster. This value is specified with the fsid setting in the configuration file of your cluster (under the [global] section):

   [global]
   fsid = 4b5c8c0a-ff60-454b-a1b4-9747aa737d19
   ...

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   Note

   For more information about the Ceph Storage cluster configuration file, see Configuration Reference (from the Red Hat Ceph Storage Configuration Guide).

Procedure

1. After you create the inventory file, save the file to the home directory of the stack user (/home/stack/instackenv.json).

2. Initialize the stack user, then import the instackenv.json inventory file into the director:

   $ source ~/stackrc
   $ openstack overcloud node import ~/instackenv.json

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   The openstack overcloud node import command imports the inventory file and registers each node with the director.

3. Assign the kernel and ramdisk images to each node:

1. Trigger hardware introspection to retrieve the hardware attributes of each node:

   $ openstack overcloud node introspect --all-manageable --provide

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   • The --all-manageable option introspects only the nodes that are in a managed state. In this example, all nodes are in a managed state.

   • The --provide option resets all nodes to an active state after introspection.

     Important

     Ensure that this process completes successfully. This process usually takes 15 minutes for bare metal nodes.

2. Retrieve a list of your nodes to identify their UUIDs:

   $ openstack baremetal node list

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3. Add a profile option to the properties/capabilities parameter for each node to manually tag a node to a specific profile. The addition of the profile option tags the nodes into each respective profile.

   Note

   As an alternative to manual tagging, use the Automated Health Check (AHC) Tools to automatically tag larger numbers of nodes based on benchmarking data.

   For example, to tag three nodes to use the control profile and another three nodes to use the compute profile, run:

   $ ironic node-update 1a4e30da-b6dc-499d-ba87-0bd8a3819bc0 add properties/capabilities='profile:control,boot_option:local'
   $ ironic node-update 6faba1a9-e2d8-4b7c-95a2-c7fbdc12129a add properties/capabilities='profile:control,boot_option:local'
   $ ironic node-update 5e3b2f50-fcd9-4404-b0a2-59d79924b38e add properties/capabilities='profile:control,boot_option:local'
   $ ironic node-update 484587b2-b3b3-40d5-925b-a26a2fa3036f add properties/capabilities='profile:compute,boot_option:local'
   $ ironic node-update d010460b-38f2-4800-9cc4-d69f0d067efe add properties/capabilities='profile:compute,boot_option:local'
   $ ironic node-update d930e613-3e14-44b9-8240-4f3559801ea6 add properties/capabilities='profile:compute,boot_option:local'

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