Host not hypervisor I think; consider nova baremetal, where hypervisor == machine that runs tftpd and makes IPMI calls, and host == place where the user workload will execute.
-Rob On 29 September 2013 17:52, Mike Spreitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have begun drafting a blueprint about more detailed host/hypervisor > location information, to support the sort of policy-informed placement > decision-making that Debo, Yathi, and I have been talking about. The > blueprint is at > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hypervisor-location-attribute > and the details are at > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/HypervisorExtendedAttributes > > You see I am a little schizophrenic here about scope. The blueprint is > named quite narrowly, and the details page is named more broadly; this is > because I am not sure what else you folks will chime in with. > > I am not sure whether this information should really be attached to a > hypervisor or to a host. I proposed hypervisor because currently the > details for a hypervisor are a map (easily extended) whereas the details for > a host are currently a list of uniformly-typed contents (not so easily > extended). But host might actually be more appropriate. I am looking for > feedback on whether/how to go that way. BTW, where would I find > documentation on host details? The current page on nova extensions > (http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/2/content/ext-compute.html) > is lacking most of them. > > You will see that I have proposed what the API looks like, but not the > source of this additional information. I will ask my colleagues who have > something like this locally, how they got it done and what they would > recommend to OpenStack. Perhaps you good folks have some suggestions. Is > there obviously one way to do it? Is it obvious that there can be no one > way and so a plug point is required? > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Robert Collins <[email protected]> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
