> Perfect write up, Jay. > > I can second these needs based on talks I had previously. > > The goal is to primarily support enterprise deployments and they work > with racks, so all of that information such as location, power supply, > etc are important. > > Though this is pretty challenging area and we need to start somewhere. > As a proof of concept, Tuskar tried to provide similar views, then we > jumped into reality. OpenStack has no strong support in racks field for > the moment. As long as we want to deliver working deployment solution > ASAP and enhance it in time, we started with currently available features. > > We are not giving up racks entirely, they are just a bit pushed back, > since there is no real support in OpenStack yet. But to deliver more > optimistic news, regarding last OpenStack summit, Ironic intends to work > with all the racks information (location, power supply, ...). So once > Ironic contains all of that information, we can happily start providing > such capability for deployment setups, hardware overviews, etc. > > Having said that, for Icehouse I pushed for Node Tags to get in. It is > not the best experience, but using Node Tags, we can actually support > various use-cases for user (by him tagging nodes manually at the moment).
+1 Jay and Jarda So the admin will be able to tag the nodes with whatever they want, presumably the rack, etc. That's a good compromise for now. Jeff _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
