A site is a physical location where devices are deployed.
The following sites are used in Bare Metal Orchestrator:
- Global Controller site: The GC, or GC site, is the default site that is created when Bare Metal Orchestrator is deployed. The GC site constitutes core components and site components. The GC can manage all sites and devices that are associated with it. It enables horizontal scaling and allows a single site to scale by creating one or more sites called remote sites.
- Remote sites: You can create remote sites in different locations and each site can manage devices that are associated with it. For example, consider if you deploy four sites, one each at Santa Clara, Hopkinton, Durham, and Miami. All sites have separate sets of physical devices to manage. The GC manages all of them and is deployed in Austin. When you create sites, site components are deployed on each site.
You can:
- Add worker nodes for creating sites.
- Create remote sites.
- View and update the site metadata.
- Monitor the health, operation, and status of your sites.
- Reinitialize a site that has failed.
- Delete remote sites.
- Manage device configurations and devices that are associated with the sites.
- Create hardware profiles on the Global Controller and apply them to servers associated with different sites.
- Update the DHCP configuration on sites.