Eric Schrock wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:35:42PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote:
>   
>> The reason I have heartburn is the statement about "only one chassis."
>> Since each blade can claim there is "only one chassis" it causes confusion.
>> It took us years to train people for this with the starcat, but that is 
>> a small segment of the population, even today.  Similarly, virtualized
>> machines can be considered as sharing a chassis, of sorts.  If we
>> clarify this by saying something like "only pertains to the one
>> chassis containing parts that this domain can see" we may be speaking
>> the truth, but it leaves the customer feeling empty.
>>
>>     
>
> This is more a statement of the current state of the project, rather
> than the ultimate goal.  As Russ pointed out, this is orthogonal to the
> use of the term "chassis" in the topology.  We plan to move beyond
> single system chassis once this phase is complete, assuming we can find
> such systems that support IPMI.
>   

Forward movement is cool.
 -- richard

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