Ubuntu installer doesn't have Mellanox OFED drivers

[Andrey Danin]

Affected release: Fuel 5.1
Affected OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (confirmed) and maybe CentOS 6.5 (not confirmed).

Slave nodes with Mellanox cards only (no onboard or oher NICs installed) fail to configure NIC during an operating system installation procedure because of lack of OFED drivers in a network installation image.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Install Fuel 5.1 Master node.
2) Take a server without onboard NICs and install a Mellanox card to it. Mellanox NIC should be the only NIC in this server.
3) Connect the server as a Slave node to the Master node.
4) Wait until the Slave node boot up into the Bootstrap image and register itself into the Master node.
    The Slave node can do that because the Bootstrap image has OFED drivers.
5) Create any Ubuntu-based cluster in Fuel UI and add the Slave node as a Controller node.
6) Run the deployment process.

Expected result:
Ubuntu should be successfully installed to the Slave node.

Actual result:
Debian installer hangs because it cannot discover any NIC and get a preseed file from the Master node.

Because we are about HCF now, I suggest to Mellanox team to confirm an actual list of their cards which is not supported by Anconda/Debian-installer and document it as a known issue in Fuel 5.1 documentation. And think about how to fix the issue in 6.0 (5.1.1).

[Andrey Kirilochkin (andreika-mail)]

http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/Drivers/mlnx-en-2.1-1.0.0.tgz

[Dmitry Borodaenko (angdraug)]

Won't Fix for 5.1.x: priority is not High or Critical.

[Evgeniya Shumakher (eshumakher)]

Nurit, please document the limitation of NICs usage for different MOS networks