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1. create a network offering with network service: userdata, sercuritygroup, baremetalpxeservice selected, we assume using external DHCP service in this example.
2. create a basic zone with aforementioned network offering.
3. create a Pod. The guest ip range adding to Pod must be in the same subnet of host's IPMI ip. Reserved ip range for CloudStack service VM is never used.
4. configure hosts and write up information of IPMI ip, IPMI account/password, MAC address of nic which will broadcast DHCP request
5. install a CentOS VM to the zone. Install CloudStack baremetal agent in it and run cloud-setup-baremetal, write up information printed out. for each switch in the zone enable DHCP forwarding to this CentOS VM.
6. add OS installed in step 5 to CloudStack by API addBaremetalPxeKickStartServer
7. create a Cluster with hypervisor type "BareMetal"
8. add a host, provide all information required by UI page. Note the 'hostname' is ipmi ip, 'account' is ipmi account, 'password' is ipmi password. Please make sure cpu number/speed, memory size is matching your real host fact, otherwise the dashboard may not display precisely. IMPORTANT: the host tag must be set to some value, otherwise the host will not be found by host allocator. If multiple host tags are set, only the first one takes effect
9. create a service offering with the same host tag specified in step 7
10. adding a template. the URL must be encoded in formula of
    ks=Kickstart_file_location;template_repo;kernel=boot_kernel_on_nfs_path;initrd=boot_initrd_on_nfs_path (for example: //nfs1.lab.vmops.com/baremetal/rhel5.ks;kernel=192.168.253.81:/kickstart/rhel5/vmlinuz;initrd=192.168.253.81:/kickstart/rhel5/initrd.gz)
11. go to instance page, create a VM from template and service offering aforementioned 

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