I am seeing that server need to be on and elementa...
# elementale
echoing-daybreak-71327
07/30/2026, 2:45 AMI am seeing that server need to be on and elemental needs to see it in inventory so it can boot using the elemental iso when needed
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bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:16 AMElemental is just a piece of the puzzle and part of what you're saying here is wrong.
bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:18 AMthe iso boots into an installer and then it loads onto the boot disk and boots into elemental and is sitting/waiting in the inventory.
bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:19 AMIf you power down, Elemental still knows about it, but it's not checking in to see if there's a new workload for it or not.
bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:20 AMYou'd probably need to get some middleware to send a WOL or IPMI/Redfish packet if it's trying to get it to wake up
bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:20 AMBut at that point you're waiting for a server to boot up.
bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:20 AM15 minutes later and it'll be ready to join the cluster.
bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:21 AM5-10 minutes after that and it might be ready to start serving work loads. depending on what it is.
bland-article-62755
07/30/2026, 4:21 AMAre you sure you can wait that long?
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echoing-daybreak-71327
07/30/2026, 4:49 AMOkay