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+Installation High-Level Overview - Bare Metal Deployment
+========================================================
+
+The setup presumes that you have 6 bare metal servers and have already setup network
+connectivity on at least 2 interfaces for all servers via a TOR switch or other
+network implementation.
+
+The physical TOR switches are **not** automatically configured from the OPNFV reference
+platform.  All the networks involved in the OPNFV infrastructure as well as the provider
+networks and the private tenant VLANs needs to be manually configured.
+
+The Jumphost can be installed using the bootable ISO or by other means including the
+(``opnfv-apex``) RPM and virtualization capabilities.  The Jumphost should then be
+configured with an IP gateway on its admin or public interface and configured with a
+working DNS server.  The Jumphost should also have routable access to the lights out network.
+
+``opnfv-deploy`` is then executed in order to deploy the Instack VM.  ``opnfv-deploy`` uses
+three configuration files in order to know how to install and provision the OPNFV target system.
+The information gathered under section `Execution Requirements (Bare Metal Only)`_ is put
+into the YAML file (``/etc/opnfv-apex/inventory.yaml``) configuration file.  Deployment
+options are put into the YAML file (``/etc/opnfv-apex/deploy_settings.yaml``).  Networking
+definitions gathered under section `Network Requirements`_ are put into the YAML file
+(``/etc/opnfv-apex/network_settings.yaml``).  ``opnfv-deploy`` will boot the Instack VM
+and load the target deployment configuration into the provisioning toolchain.  This includes
+MAC address, IPMI, Networking Environment and OPNFV deployment options.
+
+Once configuration is loaded and Instack is configured it will then reboot the nodes via IPMI.
+The nodes should already be set to PXE boot first off the admin interface.  The nodes will
+first PXE off of the Instack PXE server and go through a discovery/introspection process.
+
+Introspection boots off of custom introspection PXE images. These images are designed to look
+at the properties of the hardware that is booting off of them and report the properties of
+it back to the Instack node.
+
+After introspection Instack will execute a Heat Stack Deployment to being node provisioning
+and configuration.  The nodes will reboot and PXE again off the Instack PXE server to
+provision each node using the Glance disk images provided by Instack. These disk images
+include all the necessary packages and configuration for an OPNFV deployment to execute.
+Once the node's disk images have been written to disk the nodes will boot off the newly written
+disks and execute cloud-init which will execute the final node configuration. This
+configuration is largly completed by executing a puppet apply on each node.
+
+Installation High-Level Overview - VM Deployment
+================================================
+
+The VM nodes deployment operates almost the same way as the bare metal deployment with a
+few differences.  ``opnfv-deploy`` still deploys an Instack VM. In addition to the Instack VM
+a collection of VMs (3 control nodes + 2 compute for an HA deployment or 1 control node and
+1 compute node for a Non-HA Deployment) will be defined for the target OPNFV deployment.
+The part of the toolchain that executes IPMI power instructions calls into libvirt instead of
+the IPMI interfaces on baremetal servers to operate the power managment.  These VMs are then
+provisioned with the same disk images and configuration that baremetal would be.
+
+To RDO Manager these nodes look like they have just built and registered the same way as
+bare metal nodes, the main difference is the use of a libvirt driver for the power management.
+
+Installation Guide - Bare Metal Deployment
+==========================================
+
+**WARNING: Baremetal documentation is not complete.  WARNING: The main missing instructions are r elated to bridging
+the networking for the undercloud to the physical underlay network for the overcloud to be deployed to.**
+
+This section goes step-by-step on how to correctly install and provision the OPNFV target
+system to bare metal nodes.
+
+Install Bare Metal Jumphost
+---------------------------
+
+1a. If your Jumphost does not have CentOS 7 already on it, or you would like to do a fresh
+    install, then download the Apex bootable ISO from OPNFV artifacts <http://artifacts.opnfv.org/>.
+
+1b. If your Jump host already has CentOS 7 with libvirt running on it then install the
+    opnfv-apex RPM from OPNFV artifacts <http://artifacts.opnfv.org/>.
+
+2a.  Boot the ISO off of a USB or other installation media and walk through installing OPNFV CentOS 7.
+    The ISO comes prepared to be written directly to a USB drive with dd as such:
+
+    ``dd if=opnfv-apex.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M``
+
+    Replace /dev/sdX with the device assigned to your usb drive. Then select the USB device as the
+    boot media on your Jumphost
+
+2b. Install the RDO Release RPM and the opnfv-apex RPM:
+
+    ``sudo yum install -y https://www.rdoproject.org/repos/rdo-release.rpm opnfv-apex-{version}.rpm``
+
+    The RDO Project release repository is needed to install OpenVSwitch, which is a dependency of
+    opnfv-apex. If you do not have external connectivity to use this repository you need to download
+    the OpenVSwitch RPM from the RDO Project repositories and install it with the opnfv-apex RPM.
+
+3.  After the operating system and the opnfv-apex RPM are installed, login to your Jumphost as root.
+
+4.  Configure IP addresses on the interfaces that you have selected as your networks.
+
+5.  Configure the IP gateway to the Internet either, preferably on the public interface.
+
+6.  Configure your ``/etc/resolv.conf`` to point to a DNS server (8.8.8.8 is provided by Google).
+
+Creating a Node Inventory File
+------------------------------
+
+IPMI configuration information gathered in section `Execution Requirements (Bare Metal Only)`_
+needs to be added to the ``inventory.yaml`` file.
+
+1.  Edit ``/etc/apex-opnfv/inventory.yaml``.
+
+2.  The nodes dictionary contains a definition block for each baremetal host that will be deployed.
+    1 or more compute nodes and 3 controller nodes are required.
+    (The example file contains blocks for each of these already).
+    It is optional at this point to add more compute nodes into the node list.
+
+3.  Edit the following values for each node:
+
+    - ``mac_address``: MAC of the interface that will PXE boot from Instack
+    - ``ipmi_ip``: IPMI IP Address
+    - ``ipmi_user``: IPMI username
+    - ``ipmi_password``: IPMI password
+    - ``ipmi_type``: Power Management driver to use for the node
+    - ``cpus``: (Introspected*) CPU cores available
+    - ``memory``: (Introspected*) Memory available in Mib
+    - ``disk``: (Introspected*) Disk space available in Gb
+    - ``arch``: (Introspected*) System architecture
+    - ``capabilities``: (Optional**) Intended node role (profile:control or profile:compute)
+
+* Introspection looks up the overcloud node's resources and overrides these value. You can
+leave default values and Apex will get the correct values when it runs introspection on the nodes.
+
+** If capabilities profile is not specified then Apex will select node's roles in the OPNFV cluster
+in a non-deterministic fashion.
+
+Creating the Settings Files
+-----------------------------------
+
+Edit the 2 settings files in /etc/opnfv-apex/. These files have comments to help you customize them.
+
+1. deploy_settings.yaml
+   This file includes basic configuration options deployment.
+
+2. network_settings.yaml
+   This file provides Apex with the networking information that satisfies the
+   prerequisite `Network Requirements`_. These are specific to your environment.
+
+Running ``opnfv-deploy``
+------------------------
+
+You are now ready to deploy OPNFV using Apex!
+``opnfv-deploy`` will use the inventory and settings files to deploy OPNFV.
+
+Follow the steps below to execute:
+
+1.  Execute opnfv-deploy
+    ``sudo opnfv-deploy [ --flat | -n network_setttings.yaml ] -i instackenv.json -d deploy_settings.yaml``
+    If you need more information about the options that can be passed to opnfv-deploy use ``opnfv-deploy --help``
+    --flat will collapse all networks onto a single nic, -n network_settings.yaml allows you to customize your
+    networking topology.
+
+2.  Wait while deployment is executed.
+    If something goes wrong during this part of the process,
+    it is most likely a problem with the setup of your network or the information in your configuration files.
+    You will also notice different outputs in your shell.
+
+3.  The message "Overcloud Deployed" will display when When the deployment is complete.  Just above this message there
+    will be a URL that ends in port http://<host>:5000. This url is also the endpoint for the OPNFV Horizon Dashboard
+    if connected to on port 80.