Bare Metal Chassis Status Management

Bare metal chassis have the following deployment status, status, and power status:

Deployment Status

Description

Unknown Hardware Info

The system failed to collect the hardware information of the bare metal chassis.

• Possible cause: You did not select the reboot bare metal chassis to obtain hardware information checkbox when adding the bare metal chassis.
• Solution: Manually reboot the bare metal chassis or obtain hardware information.

PXE Booting

The deployment server (PXE server) is remotely instructing the bare metal chassis to boot from the PXE NIC and assigning a dynamic IP.

PXE Boot Failed

The bare metal chassis failed to boot from the PXE NIC.

• Make sure no other DHCP services exist in the deployment network.
• Make sure PXE is enabled in BIOS for the NIC connected to the deployment network.

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

• Confirm the bare metal chassis boot mode is set to Legacy.

Available

The bare metal chassis is ready for creating bare metal instances.

Allocated

The bare metal chassis has been used to create a bare metal instance.

Rebooting

The bare metal chassis is rebooting.

Status

Power Status

Status includes:

• Enabled
• Disabled

Power status includes:

• Power on
• Rebooting
• Power off