Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1299609
[Docs] [Director] Some node type hardware requirements are incorrect
Last modified: 2016-04-13 00:46:41 EDT
Description of problem: The current documentation at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/7/html/Director_Installation_and_Usage/sect-Overcloud_Requirements.html#sect-Compute_Node_Requirements says compute and ceph nodes must has two nics. However, the single-nic-vlans network configuration that is referenced later only requires a single nic on both of those node types. We should change the requirement to one nic for both of these node types. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: See the compute template in question here: https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/blob/master/network/config/single-nic-vlans/compute.yaml
(In reply to Ben Nemec from comment #0) To the best of my knowledge we have never actually recommended that the single-nic templates be used in production. That's a pretty bare-bones configuration. I don't see any reason not to support it and change the Minimum Requirements section of the docs, though, if anyone want to. It probably makes sense, given that some people will use the minimum requirements as a basis for their dev/test or POC deployments.
Okay, maybe we need clarification on what is actually supported then. We're explicitly referencing single-nic-vlans in the documentation, so it seems unreasonable to say we won't support configurations using that. See 6.2.6.1: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/7/html/Director_Installation_and_Usage/sect-Scenario_2_Using_the_CLI_to_Create_a_Basic_Overcloud.html#sect-Isolating_the_External_Network
Assigning to Dan for review.
Hi Ben and Dan, I was under the impression that you needed two NICs: a dedicated NIC for the provisioning network, and a separate NIC (or NICs) for the Overcloud networks. Is this not the case?
No, it's not strictly required to have two nics. Our virtual test environments actually run overcloud vms with just one nic. I guess there's a question of what we would support in a production environment, but that's a bigger question we should maybe raise with PM. For the moment, we document single-nic-vlans for network isolation, and those templates only require a single nic (surprisingly :-) so there's some inconsistency in what we have right now.
Right, I get it now. I previously thought the single NIC templates was for an interface that wasn't the provisioning NIC, but now I understand what's going on. Thanks, Ben.
I'll use the following text: "A minimum of one 1 Gbps Network Interface Cards, although it is recommended to use at least two NICs in a production environment. Use additional network interface cards for bonded interfaces or to delegate tagged VLAN traffic." That way we have a minimum and a recommended value.
Sounds good to me, thanks.
This content is now live on the Customer Portal. Closing.