Control Plane Power On and Provisioning#

At this point, the control plane nodes’ racks can be powered on and provisioned.

  1. Power on the nodes to provision (Physical power on or through BMC either by its KVM software or via ipmitool).

  2. Watch on the KVM for boot progress and that the PXE successfully picks up the head node.

  3. Watch the node installer log to look for any issues during the provisioning.

tail -f /var/log/node-installer

  1. Watch the syslog for any issues/errors.

tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep -i cmd

  1. Check cmsh to confirm the nodes are in an UP state.

  2. After provisioning, log in to the nodes from the headnode and confirm the state of the NICs (all bonds up, all connections are up at least for the north-south networking).

  3. This verifies that the BCM 11 software is correctly set up to do provisioning over the network. If the GB200 racks need to be brought up immediately, the HA and NFS configuration can be deferred.