From 974d9fbd5cde0cf86eade74bdcd2a9afebaf7d08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Wilkins Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 12:20:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] HCIDOCS-260: Clarifies that the installation drive cannot use software RAID.. --- modules/bmo-about-the-baremetalhost-resource.adoc | 6 +++--- modules/installation-special-config-raid.adoc | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/modules/bmo-about-the-baremetalhost-resource.adoc b/modules/bmo-about-the-baremetalhost-resource.adoc index 2c972e6d16..ea3feb27ac 100644 --- a/modules/bmo-about-the-baremetalhost-resource.adoc +++ b/modules/bmo-about-the-baremetalhost-resource.adoc @@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ a| (Optional) Contains the information about the RAID configuration for bare me [NOTE] ==== -{product-title} {product-version} supports hardware RAID for BMCs, including: +{product-title} {product-version} supports hardware RAID on the installation drive for BMCs, including: * Fujitsu iRMC with support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 * Dell iDRAC using the Redfish API with firmware version 6.10.30.20 or later and RAID levels 0, 1, and 5 -{product-title} {product-version} does not support software RAID. +{product-title} {product-version} does not support software RAID on the installation drive. ==== See the following configuration settings: @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ See the following configuration settings: ** `rotational`: If set to `true`, it will only select rotational disk drives. If set to `false`, it will only select solid-state and NVMe drives. If not set, it selects any drive types, which is the default behavior. ** `sizeGibibytes`: The size of the logical drive as an integer to create in GiB. If unspecified or set to `0`, it will use the maximum capacity of physical drive for the logical drive. -* `softwareRAIDVolumes`: {product-title} {product-version} does not support software RAID. The following information is for reference only. This configuration contains the list of logical disks for software RAID. If you do not specify `rootDeviceHints`, the first volume is the root volume. If you set `HardwareRAIDVolumes`, this item will be invalid. Software RAIDs will always be deleted. The number of created software RAID devices must be `1` or `2`. If there is only one software RAID device, it must be `RAID-1`. If there are two RAID devices, the first device must be `RAID-1`, while the RAID level for the second device can be `0`, `1`, or `1+0`. The first RAID device will be the deployment device. Therefore, enforcing `RAID-1` reduces the risk of a non-booting node in case of a device failure. The `softwareRAIDVolume` field defines the desired configuration of the volume in the software RAID. The sub-fields are: +* `softwareRAIDVolumes`: {product-title} {product-version} does not support software RAID on the installation drive. This configuration contains the list of logical disks for software RAID. If you do not specify `rootDeviceHints`, the first volume is the root volume. If you set `HardwareRAIDVolumes`, this item will be invalid. Software RAIDs will always be deleted. The number of created software RAID devices must be `1` or `2`. If there is only one software RAID device, it must be `RAID-1`. If there are two RAID devices, the first device must be `RAID-1`, while the RAID level for the second device can be `0`, `1`, or `1+0`. The first RAID device will be the deployment device, which cannot be a software RAID volume. Enforcing `RAID-1` reduces the risk of a non-booting node in case of a device failure. The `softwareRAIDVolume` field defines the desired configuration of the volume in the software RAID. The sub-fields are: ** `level`: The RAID level for the logical drive. The following levels are supported: `0`,`1`,`1+0`. ** `physicalDisks`: A list of device hints. The number of items should be greater than or equal to `2`. diff --git a/modules/installation-special-config-raid.adoc b/modules/installation-special-config-raid.adoc index 14ec5b0781..4569c8320a 100644 --- a/modules/installation-special-config-raid.adoc +++ b/modules/installation-special-config-raid.adoc @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ You can enable software RAID partitioning to provide an external data volume. {product-title} supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 for data protection and fault tolerance. See "About disk mirroring" for more details. +[NOTE] +==== +{product-title} {product-version} does not support software RAIDs on the installation drive. +==== + .Prerequisites * You have downloaded the {product-title} installation program on your installation node.