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Bare Metal Chassis Status Management

The deployment status, status, and power status of bare metal chassis are described in the following tables:
Deployment Status Description
Unknown Hardware Info The system has not obtained hardware information from the bare metal chassis.
Note:
  • Possible cause: The option to reboot the bare metal chassis was not selected when the chassis was added.
  • Solution: Reboot the bare metal chassis manually or manually obtain its hardware information.
PXE Booting The deployment server (PXE server) is instructing the bare metal chassis to boot from the PXE NIC and is assigning a dynamic IP address.
PXE Boot Failed The bare metal chassis failed to boot from the PXE NIC.
Note: Check the following requirements:
  • Make sure that no DHCP service other than the one on the deployment server is available on the deployment network.
  • Make sure that PXE is enabled in the BIOS for the NIC connected to the deployment network.

    For some server models, make sure that the PXE NIC is the first boot NIC, or disable PXE on all NICs with a higher boot priority.

  • Make sure that the boot mode of the bare metal chassis is Legacy.
Available The bare metal chassis can be used to create a bare metal instance.
Allocated The bare metal chassis has been used to create a bare metal instance.
Rebooting The bare metal chassis is restarting.
Status Power Status
Status can be:
  • Enabled
  • Disabled
Power status can be:
  • Power On
  • Rebooting
  • Power Off