[Rdo-list] TripleO Liberty issues and workarounds

Hi, I thought I would report some issues and workarounds deploying on HP G6 blades following - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/basic_deployment/basic_d... My Undercloud is CentOS7 and I wanted to deploy my Overcloud with the same distro. So I found some images here - https://ci.centos.org/artifacts/rdo/images/liberty/delorean/stable/ However introspection hung every time with timeout errors. My hunch was that the images were the issue so I tried to build my own. Using the guide above I created some images (after overcoming proxy issues documented previously). I still had introspection timeouts. So I thought maybe instead of using the generic CentOS cloud image the build utility provides by default I would try and specify one - export DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES="http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/" export BASE_IMAGE_FILE="CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1511.qcow2" This image was the same version as my Undercloud. This worked and introspection ran fine with no timeouts with the new images :) I then tried to deploy a stack (Overcloud).... and the nodes ended up in grub rescue mode :( The initial PXE kernel deployment worked fine, but they rebooted into grub rescue mode. I suspected the flavor was to blame and looked at the baremetal properties and saw the boot options were set to 'local'. For this to work grub2 needs to be configured in the image - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#loca... So I tried recreating the baremetal flavor without the 'local' boot option capability (unsure whether grub2 was configured or not in the image) I redeployed and the Overcloud stack deployed successfully :) Charles -- Charles Short Cloud Engineer Virtualization and Cloud Team European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) Tel: +44 (0)1223 494205