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Chapter 11. Bare Metal Installation
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11.3.6. Create a Bare Metal Image
Create an image which can be installed on bare metal hosts later, when bare metal instances are
provisioned in your cloud. On the NFS file server, create a folder and put a PXE bootable kernel and
initrd in it. For example:
# mkdir –p /home/centos63
# cp iso_mount_path_to_centos63/images/pxeboot/{ initrd.img, vmlinuz } /home/centos63
For Ubuntu:
iso_mount_path_to_unbuntu/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/
11.3.7. Create a Bare Metal Compute Offering
1. Log in as admin to the CloudPlatform UI at the URL below. Substitute the IP address of your own
Management Server:
http://<management-server-ip-address>:8080/client
2. In the left navigation bar, click Service Offerings.
3. In Select Offering, choose Compute Offerings.
4. Click Add compute offering.
5. In the dialog box, fill in these values:
• Name. Any desired name for the service offering.
• Description. A short description of the offering that can be displayed to users.
• Storage Type. Shared.
• # of CPU Cores. Use the same value as when you added the host.
• CPU (in MHZ). Use the same value as when you added the host.
• Memory (in MB). Use the same value as when you added the host.
• Offer HA. Unchecked. High availability services are not supported for bare metal hosts.
• Storage Tags.
• Host Tags. Any tags that you want to use to organize your hosts. For example, "large"
• Public? Yes.
6. Click OK.