Merge "Document requirements for BIOS and RAID configuration"

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BIOS and RAID configuration may require one or more power cycles of the
hardware to complete the operation. These will be performed automatically.
.. note::
Currently, BIOS and RAID configuration of overcloud hosts is supported for
Dell servers only.
Configuration of BIOS settings and RAID volumes is currently performed out of
band as a separate task from hardware provisioning. To configure the BIOS and
RAID::
@ -307,6 +312,14 @@ properties and root device hints. To perform manual hardware inspection::
(kayobe) $ kayobe overcloud hardware inspect
There are currently a few limitations to configuring BIOS and RAID:
* The Ansible control host must be able to access the BMCs of the servers being
configured.
* The Ansible control host must have the ``python-dracclient`` Python module
available to the Python interpreter used by Ansible. The path to the Python
interpreter is configured via ``ansible_python_interpreter``.
Provisioning
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