I dont think there is a meaningful way to determine the host state in a bare metal instance without writing a guest specific client/agent. IPMI when queried will just let you know the chassis' power state, which isnt very useful. To my knowledge HA and bare metal dont work together at the moment.
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Jessica Tomechak <jessica.tomec...@gmail.com > wrote: > Does it matter whether Offer HA is checked when creating a compute offering > for use with a bare metal deployment? My understanding of HA is that it > will restart a VM on another host in the same zone if the VM crashes. In > the case of bare metal, instead of a VM, we have a baremetal instance, one > per machine. Would checking Offer HA mean that if a bare metal host > crashes, another baremetal instance would be created on a different host in > the zone? Has anyone tried / tested this scenario? > > Jessica T. >
