Mirantis Fuel – provisioning a HP DL 380 G7

hi – My colleague Purna and I ventured into trying to use Mirantis Fuel to provision a private cloud using Hp DL 380 G7s and 380 G6s

We installed the Fuel management station on a VM – then tried to bootstrap the G7 server by allowing it to PXE boot – the server was not getting detected in the fuel dashboard – troubleshooting revealed that hit the following bug with bnx2 and centos — workaround is also documented below -
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kernel 3.4 is missing broadcom bnx2 NIC firmware file
“bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw” so for example Dell R510 server NICs
fail to work out of the box. Note that this is an upstream kernel.org
problem. In kernel dmesg you’ll see an error like: “bnx2: Can’t load
firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw””. To workaround the
problem do: “cd /lib/firmware/bnx2 && ln -s bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw
bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw”. After that “ifdown ethX && ifup ethX” should
work.
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watch out this page for more updates on our experiment with Fuel + baremetal provisioning.