ipi-install-prerequisites.adoc

Prerequisites

Installer-provisioned installation of {product-title} requires:

1. One provisioner node with {op-system-base-full} {op-system-version} installed. The provisioner can be removed after installation.

2. Three control plane nodes

3. Baseboard management controller (BMC) access to each node

4. At least one network:

   1. One required routable network

   2. One optional provisioning network

   3. One optional management network

Before starting an installer-provisioned installation of {product-title}, ensure the hardware environment meets the following requirements.

modules/ipi-install-node-requirements.adoc

modules/installation-minimum-resource-requirements.adoc

modules/virt-planning-bare-metal-cluster-for-ocp-virt.adoc

Additional resources

• Preparing your cluster for {VirtProductName}

• About Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) hardware networks

• Connecting a virtual machine to an SR-IOV network

modules/ipi-install-firmware-requirements-for-installing-with-virtual-media.adoc

Additional resources

Unable to discover new bare metal hosts using the BMC

modules/ipi-install-network-requirements.adoc

Additional resources

• Using DNS forwarding

modules/ipi-install-configuring-nodes.adoc

modules/ipi-install-out-of-band-management.adoc

modules/ipi-install-required-data-for-installation.adoc

modules/ipi-install-validation-checklist-for-nodes.adoc