Deploying compute hosts

Steps to deploy compute hosts from the IBM Storage Fusion user interface.

About this task

The hosts for the deployment are provisioned by the IBM Storage Fusion infrastructure.

IBM Cloud® Satellite creates a location and the IBM Storage Fusion infrastructure virtualization provides the hosts for that location.

The job of the IBM Cloud Satellite operator on IBM Storage Fusion is to prepare the virtual machines and attach them as hosts to the satellite location.

Procedure

  1. Log in to IBM Storage Fusion.
  2. From the menu, click Cloud Satellite.
    It lists all deployed hosts in a table format. It includes OpenShift Project name, Name, Status, Hosts, IP address, and Updated on columns.
  3. Click Deploy hosts.
    Note: Ensure that you created the configmap as described in the Before you begin section of Deploying IBM Cloud Satellite hosts.
    The Setting up and configuring Cloud Satellite window gets displayed. Check whether you meet the prerequisites steps.
  4. In the Deployment configuration tab, enter the following details:
    Name
    Enter the name to reference on IBM Storage Fusion. It is not the name of the location.
    Select OpenShift project name
    Select whether it is an existing OpenShift project or a New project. If you select the Existing project option, then select a project from the drop-down list.
    OpenShift project name
    This is the name of the new OpenShift project.
  5. Click Next.
    The Host configuration tab page gets displayed.
  6. In the Host configuration tab page, enter the following details:
    Note: Set up a host pool with the template and number of hosts that you want. Later, you can add more hosts with different flavors, or resize your existing hosts to fit the resource needs of your workloads.
    Hosts to deploy
    Select the number of hosts to deploy. The minimum value is 6.
    Templates
    Review the specifications and select a template tile.
    Selected host hardware
    Includes the vCPUs, memory, primary disk, and secondary disk.
    IP address configuration
    Enter the IP addresses to set up the location for the number of hosts that you would like to deploy. Use comma or space to separate the entries. Click Check IP addresses to validate them.
    Network configuration
    Enter Gateway, NetMask, DNS, and VLAN ID.
    Enable Scale
    Do not select this option.
  7. Click Next.
    The Virtual machine credentials tab page gets displayed.
  8. In the Virtual machine credentials tab page, enter the credentials to access the virtual machines that run IBM Cloud Satellite hosts on OpenShift®.
    Note: The cloud-user can only run sudo level operations on the virtual machine, so enter cloud-user for Username value.
  9. Click Next.
  10. In the Location registration script tab page, upload or drag-drop the shell script that you received from IBM Cloud after the location got created.
    Note: To manually create satellite location and download registration script, see IBM Cloud Satellite.
    The registration script is run on all the virtual machines. This script attaches all the virtual machines to the IBM Cloud Satellite Location.
  11. Click Next.
  12. In the Review and deploy tab page, go through the details and click Finish.

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