Working with Hosted Control Plane on Fusion Data Foundation

Create a Hosted Control Plane OpenShift® Virtualization cluster.

1. Log in to OpenShift Container Platform console, and go to Advanced Cluster Management view.
2. Go to Infrastructure > Clusters.
3. In the Cluster list tab, click Create cluster.
4. Select Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as your infrastructure provider.
5. In the Control plane type, select Hosted. A Create cluster wizard page gets displayed.
6. In the Create cluster wizard, enter your cluster details:
   1. In the Cluster details wizard page, enter your cluster details.

      Release image

      select OpenShift 4.16

      Additional labels

      Enter isf.ibm.com/fusion-base=, isf.ibm.com/fusion-fdf=, and isf.ibm.com/fusion-backup= labels to install IBM Storage Fusion, Fusion Data Foundation, and Backup & Restore service on the newly created cluster.

   2. Click Next to go to the Node pools page of the wizard.
   3. In the Node pools page, enter the location and size of the nodes.
   4. Click Next to go to the Review and create page of the wizard.
   5. In the Review and create page, go through the details and click Create.
   Alternatively, use the following command line example to create a Hosted Control Plane for OpenShift Virtualization by using the KubeVirt platform type. Make sure you export the variables used in the example with their right values.

   # Set environment variables
   export CLUSTER_NAME=example
   export PULL_SECRET="$HOME/pull-secret"
   export MEM="6Gi"
   export CPU="2"
   export WORKER_COUNT="2"
   
   hcp create cluster kubevirt \
    --name $CLUSTER_NAME \
    --node-pool-replicas $WORKER_COUNT \
    --pull-secret $PULL_SECRET \
    --memory $MEM \
    --cores $CPU \
    --etcd-storage-class lvms-hcp-etcd \
    --infra-availability-policy HighlyAvailable \
    --root-volume-storage-class ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd \
    --root-volume-volume-mode Block \
   --root-volume-access-modes ReadWriteMany

   For the complete procedure, see Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management documentation.

   Run the following command to get a list of available parameters:

   hcp create cluster kubevirt --help

7. To validate the clusters, do the following steps:
   1. Log in to the OpenShift Container Platform console of the hub, and go to the Advanced Cluster Management View.
   2. Go to Infrastructure > Clusters.
   3. From the Clusters list, click a hosted cluster name link to view the details.
   Note: Hosted Control Plane cluster creation can take more than 45 minutes to one hour.