Hi all,
Long time lurker and peruser of L1T!
I wanted to pick the communities brains today to see whether anyone has been through the same issue I find myself in.
I’ve been tasked with designing a single rack whereby edge servers where virtualisation and compute have no local storage. Instead, the expectation utilises a tool such as PXE, which I have used while testing MaaS.io from Canonical. However, their implementation for deploying workloads to the edge server still requires local storage.
I’m hoping there will be some magical solution to my issues, and whilst designing it from a hardware perspective isn’t an issue (2x 10Gb NIC on all edge servers into 2x MoR switches and an NVMe accelerated SSD / HDD hybrid storage cluster using Ceph or a similar tool.
Has anyone come across a situation like this? What was their outcome?
Many thanks!
EDIT: Reading through Openstacks documentation regarding their implementation of PXE (Boot interfaces — ironic 18.3.0.dev17 documentation) and it looks like this may be the solution to my problems.