Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Update kb/2024-02-19/booting_harvester_via_iscsi_ibt.md
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Co-authored-by: Jillian <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
jeff-radick-suse and jillian-maroket authored Feb 29, 2024
1 parent 7bf3731 commit 31e6a19
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 8 deletions.
10 changes: 2 additions & 8 deletions kb/2024-02-19/booting_harvester_via_iscsi_ibt.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -9,15 +9,9 @@ tags: [harvester]
hide_table_of_contents: false
---

Although Harvester through release 1.3.0 does not yet support booting and running on nodes without locally attached storage,
there are certain cases where it can be made to work.
Through v1.3.0, no explicit support has been provided for using Harvester (installing, booting, and running) with any type of storage that is not locally attached. This is in keeping with the philosophy of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), which by definition hosts computational capability, storage, and networking in a single device or a set of similar devices operating in a cluster.

These notes describe the specific limited conditions where it is possible,
and provide some manual changes to the boot configuration to make it work when those conditions apply.

The procedure is fairly simple; most of this document provides context and discusses limitations of the procedure.

The procedure contains some manual steps. It is possible that a future Harvester release _may_ automate these steps.
However, there are certain limited conditions that allow Harvester to be used on nodes without locally-attached bootable storage devices. Specifically, the use of converged network adapters (CNAs) as well as manual changes to the boot loader configuration of the installed system are required.

# Concepts and Purpose

Expand Down

0 comments on commit 31e6a19

Please sign in to comment.