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Install and Provision the Central Cloud

Installing the Central Cloud is similar to installing a standalone system.

The Central Cloud supports either

  • an deployment configuration
  • a Standard with Dedicated Storage Nodes deployment Standard with Controller Storage and one or more workers deployment configuration, or
  • a Standard with Dedicated Storage Nodes deployment configuration.

A Standard System Controller with controller storage is not supported.

Complete the procedure for your deployment scenario with the modifications noted above and below.

You will also need to make the following modification:

  • when creating the user configuration overrides for the Ansible bootstrap playbook in /home/sysadmin/localhost.yml.

    Add the parameters shown in bold below to your /home/sysadmin/localhost.yml Ansible bootstrap override file to indicate that this cloud will play the role of the Central Cloud / System Controller

  • restrict the range of addresses for the management network (using management_start_address and management_end_address, as shown below) to exclude the IP addresses reserved for gateway routers that provide routing to the subclouds' management subnets.

  • Also, include the container images shown in bold below in additional_local_registry_images, required for support of subcloud installs with the Redfish Platform Management Service, and subcloud installs using a Ceph storage backend...

where <X.Y.Z> are replaced with the correct values for your environment.