Excerpts from George Shuklin's message of 2016-12-26 00:22:38 +0200: > Hello everyone. > > > Did someone actually made Ironic running with ToR (top rack switches) > under neutron in production? Which switch verdor/plugin (and OS version) > do you use? Do you have some switch configuration with parts outside of > Neutron reach? Is it worth spent efforts on integration, etc? >
We had an experimental setup with Ironic and the OVN Neutron driver and VTEP-capable switches (Juniper, I forget the model #, but Arista also has models that fully support VTEP). It was able to boot baremetal nodes on isolated L2's (including an isolated provisioning network). In theory this would also allow VM<->baremetal L2 networking (and with kuryr, you could get VM<->baremetal<->container working too). But we never proved this definitively as we got tripped up on scheduling and hostmanager issues running with ironic in one host agg and libvirt in another. I believe these are solved, though I've not seen the documentation to prove it. > And one more question: Does Ironic support snapshotting of baremetal > servers? With some kind of agent/etc? > I think that's asking too much really. The point of baremetal is that you _don't_ have any special agents between your workload and hardware. Consider traditional backup strategies. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
