Description of configuration options for baremetal
Configuration option=Default value Description
db_backend=sqlalchemy (StrOpt) The backend to use for bare-metal database
deploy_kernel=None (StrOpt) Default kernel image ID used in deployment phase
deploy_ramdisk=None (StrOpt) Default ramdisk image ID used in deployment phase
driver=nova.virt.baremetal.pxe.PXE (StrOpt) Baremetal driver back-end (pxe or tilera)
driver=nova.cells.rpc_driver.CellsRPCDriver (StrOpt) Cells communication driver to use
instance_type_extra_specs= (ListOpt) a list of additional capabilities corresponding to instance_type_extra_specs for this compute host to advertise. Valid entries are name=value, pairs For example, "key1:val1, key2:val2"
ipmi_power_retry=5 (IntOpt) maximal number of retries for IPMI operations
net_config_template=$pybasedir/nova/virt/baremetal/net-dhcp.ubuntu.template (StrOpt) Template file for injected network config
power_manager=nova.virt.baremetal.ipmi.IPMI (StrOpt) Baremetal power management method
pxe_append_params=None (StrOpt) additional append parameters for baremetal PXE boot
pxe_bootfile_name=pxelinux.0 (StrOpt) This gets passed to Neutron as the bootfile dhcp parameter when the dhcp_options_enabled is set.
pxe_config_template=$pybasedir/nova/virt/baremetal/pxe_config.template (StrOpt) Template file for PXE configuration
pxe_deploy_timeout=0 (IntOpt) Timeout for PXE deployments. Default: 0 (unlimited)
pxe_network_config=False (BoolOpt) If set, pass the network configuration details to the initramfs via cmdline.
sql_connection=sqlite:///$state_path/baremetal_$sqlite_db (StrOpt) The SQLAlchemy connection string used to connect to the bare-metal database
terminal=shellinaboxd (StrOpt) path to baremetal terminal program
terminal_cert_dir=None (StrOpt) path to baremetal terminal SSL cert(PEM)
terminal_pid_dir=$state_path/baremetal/console (StrOpt) path to directory stores pidfiles of baremetal_terminal
tftp_root=/tftpboot (StrOpt) Baremetal compute node's tftp root path
use_unsafe_iscsi=False (BoolOpt) Do not set this out of dev/test environments. If a node does not have a fixed PXE IP address, volumes are exported with globally opened ACL
vif_driver=nova.virt.baremetal.vif_driver.BareMetalVIFDriver (StrOpt) Baremetal VIF driver.
virtual_power_host_key=None (StrOpt) ssh key for virtual power host_user
virtual_power_host_pass= (StrOpt) password for virtual power host_user
virtual_power_host_user= (StrOpt) user to execute virtual power commands as
virtual_power_ssh_host= (StrOpt) ip or name to virtual power host
virtual_power_ssh_port=22 (IntOpt) Port to use for ssh to virtual power host
virtual_power_type=virsh (StrOpt) base command to use for virtual power(vbox,virsh)