Feature request, option to enable SR-IOV in the bios
Bug #1729474 reported by
Xav Paice
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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MAAS |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Typically in environments where we use SR-IOV, we need to go to each machine and enable this in the BIOS, often via scripts and workarounds to make it scale, using 'racadm set BIOS.Integrated
It would be ideal if we could enable this via Maas and avoid the extra steps in deployment.
Changed in maas: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
milestone: | none → next |
status: | New → Triaged |
status: | Triaged → Incomplete |
Changed in maas: | |
status: | Expired → Confirmed |
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MAAS 2.4 has as part of its roadmap to define commissioning templates that would allow users to do things like this without having to embbed and support this in MAAS. This will be targeted to HBA’s and Firmware upgrades, but this will be reusable for other cases like this.
That said, I have a few questions:
1. How can you discover, via the OS, that you have a SR-IOV card that *needs* to be enabled in the bios?
2. The racadm binary, where does it come from? What are the conditions for it to work? Is it usable on all hardware from different manufacturers? Any extra information that you can provide?