Supported Operating Systems Deployable With Bare Metal Provisioning (ironic)

This article lists the Red Hat and third-party guest operating systems that can be installed on bare metal nodes in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment through the Bare Metal Provisioning (ironic).

Basically, you can deploy the operating systems in two different methods:

• as a whole-disk image, where the image represents a standalone operating system,
• as a partition image, where the kernel and the ramdisk are separate from the rest of the image.

All operating systems that are certified for use with the Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor, see Certified Guest Operating Systems in Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, can be installed on bare metal nodes, too. However for bare metal provisioning, Red Hat only supports the following versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Supported Operating Systems

Unsupported Operating Systems

The following operating systems are considered unsupported, because Red Hat has not tested and verified their ability to work on bare metal, although it is possible that they will work without limitations. Some operating systems may require extra drivers depending on your hardware set-up.

To deploy these operating systems, you can only use the whole-disk image method.

NOTE: If you decide to deploy an operating system that is not supported by Red Hat, then Red Hat will not take any responsibility for problems or malfunctions that you may experience by using such operating systems, although Red Hat will continue to provide support for OpenStack and ironic functionality.

NOTE: The above list of unsupported operating systems is not to be considered comprehensive.