Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary extra specs for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Day, Phil
Hi Joe, Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? It sounds on the face of it that what you’re looking for is pretty similar to what Extensible Resource Tracker sets out to do (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/86050 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/71557) Phil From:

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary extra specs for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Cropper
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Chris Friesen chris.frie...@windriver.com wrote: On 06/07/2014 12:30 AM, Joe Cropper wrote: Hi Folks, I was wondering if there was any such mechanism in the compute node structure to hold arbitrary key-value pairs, similar to flavors' extra_specs concept?

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary extra specs for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Cropper
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Day, Phil philip@hp.com wrote: Hi Joe, Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? Sure! For example, in the PowerKVM world, hosts can be dynamically configured to run in split-core processor mode. This setting can be dynamically

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary extra specs for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/09/2014 01:38 PM, Joe Cropper wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Day, Phil philip@hp.com wrote: Hi Joe, Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? Sure! For example, in the PowerKVM world, hosts can be dynamically configured to run in split-core

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Arbitrary extra specs for compute nodes?

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Cropper
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/09/2014 01:38 PM, Joe Cropper wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Day, Phil philip@hp.com wrote: Hi Joe, Can you give some examples of what that data would be used for ? Sure! For example, in the