There is a use case for base metal hardware metering in the private cloud where the user allocated the machine does not have root access to kill the metering.
Being able to create a single metering infrastructure for the entire private cloud, virtual or bare-metal allocation, is a need.... technically, it is not clear how to guarantee it but it is worth exploring. Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Robert Collins > Sent: 06 November 2012 11:00 > To: Graf Lucas (graflu0); Zehnder Toni (zehndton); > [email protected]; Doug Hellmann > Subject: Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] Monitoring physical devices > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Julien Danjou <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06 2012, Graf Lucas (graflu0) wrote: > > > >> I'm a little confused now... ;) Is the bare metal run by the platform > >> operator the physical machine? What do you mean with the bare metal > >> run to replace virtual instances for any project? > > > > AFAIU, bare-metal provisionning is about using hardware (bare-metal) > > rather than virtual instances as a flavor in Nova. > > For such case, we won't be able to poll anything about the hardware. > > > > For hardware ran by the operator, this will be doable. > > We can still talk to the IPMI controller for the machine, which will get us lots > of info, without running agents in the host os. > > -Rob > > > > -- > Robert Collins <[email protected]> > Distinguished Technologist > HP Cloud Services > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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