This driver should work on HP Proliant Gen8 Servers and above with iLO 4. The management information and boot image will be retrieved over encrypted management network via iLO virtual media. However, if Swift proxy server has an HTTPS endpoint (See Enabling HTTPS in Swift for more information), the iscsi_ilo driver provides enhanced security by passing management information to and from Swift endpoint over HTTPS. Users who have concerns on PXE driver's security issues and want to have a security enhanced PXE-less deployment mechanism - The PXE driver passes management information in clear-text to the baremetal node.Users who do not want to use PXE/TFTP protocol on their data centres.iscsi_ilo uses virtual media feature in iLO to boot up the bare metal node instead of using PXE or iPXE.
#Hp ilo 4 use directory default schema drivers
Iscsi_ilo driver was introduced as an alternative to pxe_ipmitool and pxe_ipminative drivers for HP Proliant servers. On most distros, this is provided as part of the ipmitool package. ipmitool command must be present on the service node(s) where ironic-conductor is running.
#Hp ilo 4 use directory default schema install
Install proliantutils module on the Ironic conductor node. proliantutils is a python package which contains a set of modules for managing HP Proliant hardware.This driver doesn't require iLO Advanced license. Pxe_ilo driver uses PXE/iSCSI for deployment (just like normal PXE driver), but support automatic setting of requested boot mode from nova. agent_ilo driver deploys from bare metal node and always does local-boot. iscsi_ilo driver deploys from Ironic conductor node and can do both net-boot and lcaol-boot. These drivers send management info through management channel and separates it from data channel which is used for deployment. The iscsi_ilo and agent_ilo drivers provide security enhanced PXE-less deployment by using iLO virtual media to boot up the bare metal node. iLO drivers are targetted for HP Proliant Gen 8 systems and above which have iLO 4 management engine. ILO drivers enable to take advantage of features of iLO management engine in HP Proliant servers. 1.3.3.7 Registering Proliant node in Ironic.1.3.3.6 Configuring and Enabling the driver.1.3.2.8 Registering Proliant node in Ironic.1.3.2.7 Configuring and Enabling the driver.1.3.1.8 Registering Proliant node in Ironic.1.3.1.7 Configuring and Enabling the driver.