Deploying Bare Metal clusters with Fusion Data Foundation

Create Bare Metal hosted clusters with Fusion Data Foundation as the storage type. It supports both Hosted Control Plane Bare Metal internal servers in a rack and Hosted Control Plane Bare Metal external servers.

Important: This topic provides guidance only for x86 architecture.
The following are the high-level steps to create a Bare Metal Hosted Control Plane cluster:
Note: Ensure you meet all the prerequisites before you deploy:
  1. Plan for the Bare Metal Hosted Control Plane
  2. Create the Infrastructure Environment.
    Important: Create one infrastructure environment per hosted control plane cluster. Each Hosted Control Plane can only add hosts from a single infrastructure.
  3. Import the hosts by using Red Hat® Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (ACM)
    1. Create the NMStateConfig for each host.
    2. Download the discovery.iso.
    3. Boot the host with the discovery.iso.
    4. Accept host into ACM inventory.
  4. Create the Hosted Control Plane cluster.
  5. Configuring ingress for newly created Bare Metal hosted cluster.