You saw the discovery message was because of the node configuration was not finished yet. After running 'nodeset' and start the node deployment, the discovery message won't show again.
Regarding the discovery, you can use 'sequential discovery' to discover virtual node. Refer to: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start#Option_1:_Sequential_Discovery Another easy manual method is: You can check the undiscovered node by command: 'nodediscoverls -t all' (Any nodes which is sending discovery request will be recorded in discoverydata table and can be dispalyed by nodediscoverls command). And run 'nodediscoverdef' to define the undiscovered node to a node definition in xCAT db. See examples: # nodediscoverls -t all UUID NODE METHOD MTM SERIAL 643CC79B-B7BD-224F-8105-9AEF8329E195 undef undef 9AA99E16 # nodediscoverls -t all -l Object uuid: 643CC79B-B7BD-224F-8105-9AEF8329E195 method=undef discoverytime=01-13-2014 01:14:28 arch=x86_64 cpucount=2 cputype=Intel Core 2 Duo P9xxx (Penryn Class Core 2) memory=3770188 serial=9AA99E16-BAAA-11E1-B9E3-3440B5E0E828_34:40:B5:E0:E8:28 nicdriver=eth0!e1000 nicipv4=eth0!10.1.100.114/16 nichwaddr=eth0!00:1A:4A:01:00:5D nicpci=eth0!0000:00:03.0 Thanks Best Regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: [email protected] Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 From: Josh Nielsen <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 2014/01/11 08:09 Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Node discovery for VMs in VMWare I tried the manual insertion of the MAC address and I was able to get a DHCP lease for the VM (IP 10.20.240.254) but for some reason it just kept saying it was processing the discovery request like this over and over again: Jan 10 17:45:11 x3650-head01 xCAT: xcatd: Processing discovery request from 10.20.240.254 Jan 10 23:45:14 10.20.240.254 (none) dhclient[310]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 125010ms. Jan 10 17:45:16 x3650-head01 xCAT: xcatd: Processing discovery request from 10.20.240.254 Jan 10 23:45:17 10.20.240.254 (none) dhclient[321]: XMT: Solicit on eth1, interval 112560ms. Jan 10 17:45:21 x3650-head01 xCAT: xcatd: Processing discovery request from 10.20.240.254 Jan 10 17:45:36 x3650-head01 last message repeated 3 times I'll have to debug this more after the weekend. -Josh On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Josh Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all, I would like to provision some new nodes in my xCAT cluster inside VMWare but I just realized that the way xCAT has identified and discovered my nodes in the past has been by dedicated physical port numbers on the switches as defined in the xCAT switch database table. That is not a problem for physical nodes which have a single cable going into a port on a switch dedicated only to that node. For example one of my nodes has this entry in the switch table: #node,switch,port,vlan,interface,comments,disable "hinode","bnt01","44","1","eth0","bnt01:p44" This tells xCAT that the node found connected to port 44 on switch bnt01 can be identified as node "hinode". With a VMWare cluster however a VM may reside on many ports (in my case I have 3 ESX servers - and 3 corresponding cables to the switch - which the VM may be on) at any given time, depending on which VMWare host it is running on. And on top of that the network connection is trunked so that every VM running on each ESX host goes through the same network port. Has anyone provisioned nodes in VMWare before with xCAT? And if there is not a way to do this automatically by the switch/port associations, is there another manual way that I can discover the node? Would manually inserting the node's MAC address into the xCAT 'mac' table work, or is more than that required for (auto)discovery? Thanks, Josh Nielsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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