Bug 1324472

Summary:	While installing ceph nodes, how to specify root/boot disk other than sda.
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Pratik Pravin Bandarkar <pbandark>
Component:	rhosp-director	Assignee:	Angus Thomas <athomas>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Yogev Rabl <yrabl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0 (Kilo)	CC:	athomas, dbecker, dsneddon, gfidente, jomurphy, mburns, morazi, rhel-osp-director-maint, seb
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Target Release:	10.0 (Newton)	Flags:	pbandark: needinfo? (athomas)
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-10-14 19:06:57 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Pratik Pravin Bandarkar 2016-04-06 12:10:03 UTC

Description of problem:
The used Dell Poweredge r730xd Servers have the following hdd config:
Hardware Raidcontroller (Perc H730) with 12 installed HDD's.

First 2 hdd's are mirrored as a Hardware Raid.

The 10 additional disks are also connected to the same Controller as non-raid disks and sofore visible to the OS as Independent disks.

Problem I have now is:
The bootdrive (mirror) is shown as disk /dev/sdk instead of /dev/sda

Drives /dev/sda-sdj are not bootable (through BIOS)

Is it possible to "tell" through the ceph storage heat template to not install onto /dev/sda but onto disk /dev/disk/by-??? Or is there any other / better way?



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHOS7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
unable to specify root/boot disk other than sda

Expected results:
While installing ceph nodes, specify root/boot disk other than sda.


Additional info:

Comment 3 Mike Burns 2016-04-07 21:36:02 UTC

This bug did not make the OSP 8.0 release.  It is being deferred to OSP 10.

Comment 4 seb 2016-09-22 14:56:14 UTC

It seems to be settable, people will comment with more details.
if this is not documenting, this will in doc.

Thanks!

Comment 5 Giulio Fidente 2016-09-22 14:58:44 UTC

It should be possible to chose a particular device for boot setting a property for the ironic node, see [1]

1. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-openstack-platform/9/single/director-installation-and-usage/#sect-Defining_the_Root_Disk_for_Nodes