Limitations

  • Omnia supports only diskless provisioning of servers.

  • Omnia supports nodes discovered only through the mapping file.

  • Omnia does not support automatic deletion of the nodes using playbooks. However, you can reprovision the nodes. To reprovision the nodes, see Re-provisioning the cluster.

  • Dell Technologies provides support only for the Dell-developed modules of Omnia. Third-party tools deployed by Omnia are not covered by Dell support.

  • In a single-node cluster, the login node and Slurm functionalities are not applicable.

  • Containerized benchmark jobs are not supported on Slurm clusters.

  • All iDRACs must use the same username and password.

  • Omnia playbooks will fail if the OIM is unable to access online resources or the Internet.

  • In cluster nodes, node to node passwordless SSH is not available.

  • LDMS Slurm sampler metrics are not supported in the current telemetry deployment.

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