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=== Known Issues ===
 
=== Known Issues ===
  
* Missing dependencies which prevent the "seamicro" drivers from loading will generate a traceback on service start up, which can be ignored if this driver is not needed.
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* The Nova "ironic" driver is not present in the Nova code base.
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** To utilize it, install ironic on your nova-compute host(s) and set '''compute_driver=ironic.nova.virt.ironic.IronicDriver'''
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* Serial console support is not implemented by any of the drivers, even though the REST API exposes it
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* A missing dependency which prevent the "seamicro" drivers from loading will cause '''ironic-conductor''' to log an exception trace on startup
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** This can safely be ignored if you are not using the seamicro driver.
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** Alternately, install the python-seamicrocilent library.
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* The nova.virt.ironic driver is not passing ephemeral partition specifications to Ironic.
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** This may be manually set on the node.driver_info field via "pxe_ephemeral_gb" and "pxe_ephemeral_format".
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* Attempting to provision a node with a swap partition greater than 1mb may lead to a failure in sfdisk when provisioning the node.
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* IPMI passwords are visible to users with cloud admin privileges.
  
 
=== Upgrade Notes ===
 
=== Upgrade Notes ===

Revision as of 20:31, 9 April 2014

Key New Features

Significant Bugs Fixed

Known Issues

  • The Nova "ironic" driver is not present in the Nova code base.
    • To utilize it, install ironic on your nova-compute host(s) and set compute_driver=ironic.nova.virt.ironic.IronicDriver
  • Serial console support is not implemented by any of the drivers, even though the REST API exposes it
  • A missing dependency which prevent the "seamicro" drivers from loading will cause ironic-conductor to log an exception trace on startup
    • This can safely be ignored if you are not using the seamicro driver.
    • Alternately, install the python-seamicrocilent library.
  • The nova.virt.ironic driver is not passing ephemeral partition specifications to Ironic.
    • This may be manually set on the node.driver_info field via "pxe_ephemeral_gb" and "pxe_ephemeral_format".
  • Attempting to provision a node with a swap partition greater than 1mb may lead to a failure in sfdisk when provisioning the node.
  • IPMI passwords are visible to users with cloud admin privileges.

Upgrade Notes