MAAS Follow-Up

[Jorge O. Castro]

Adding in the maas list for this one:

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Joe Arnet <jarnet at barracuda.com> wrote:

> It’s been awhile since I’ve used cloud-init, but I don’t believe it’s
> possible to create raid arrays for the “volume” you’ve just booted from. In
> my understanding, cloud-init takes over after the os image has been laid
> down/installed and upon first reboot post-install. In any case, I’ll read
> upon cloud-init to see if anything has changed, but I thought getting the
> raid array setup would occur before installing the os image, in a perfect
> world.
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> Regards,
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> *From: *<jorge.castro at gmail.com> on behalf of "Jorge O. Castro" <
> jorge.castro at canonical.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 3:34 PM
> *To: *Joe Arnet <jarnet at barracuda.com>
> *Cc: *Marco Ceppi <marco.ceppi at canonical.com>
> *Subject: *Re: MAAS Follow-Up
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> I've found out that this card is listed in our certified hardware
> database, so it should work out of the box: https://certification.
> ubuntu.com/catalog/component/scsi/4637/scsi%3AMR9271-8i/
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> There are some ways you can do this:
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> On installation by using cloud-init, where you can define storage:
> https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/examples.html#disk-setup
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> Or just have puppet do it: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> topics/examples.html#setup-and-run-puppet
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> or you can call puppet post-first-boot in the post-commissioning script.
> If you're planning on using RAID for the root disk then doing it in
> cloud-init is probably the way to go.
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> Let me know if you have any follow on questions.
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Joe Arnet <jarnet at barracuda.com> wrote:
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> Gentleman,
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> Thanks so much again for taking time to talk to us about MAAS. Before we
> start a POC, I’m curious as to if you found any answers/information about
> what it can do with our LSI/Avago raid cards (specifically I think it’s the
> commissioning script portion – can we get one to make an array on a
> hardware raid card as part of the process). Thanks!
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> Regards,
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> *Joe Arnet*
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