[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Scheduling baremetal deployment on different hw model

2014-06-29 Thread Taurus Cheung
Hi, I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova bare-metal. My datacenter has 2 types of hw models, IBM and Dell. In existing implementation, if I want to deploy image on specified type of hw model, I need to setup 2 baremetal compute nodes, one for container of IBM

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Scheduling baremetal deployment on different hw model

2014-06-29 Thread Taurus Cheung
- From: Robert Collins [mailto:robe...@robertcollins.net] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 12:46 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Taurus Cheung Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Scheduling baremetal deployment on different hw model Firstly, use

[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Deprovision of bare-metal nodes

2014-02-28 Thread Taurus Cheung
Hi, I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova bare-metal. After deployment, I would like to deprovision (disconnect) bare-metal nodes from OpenStack controller/compute, so these bare-metal nodes can run standalone. A typical scenario is that I have a workstation with

[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Status of nova baremetal and ironic

2014-02-07 Thread Taurus Cheung
I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova bare-metal. So far working well. I know Ironic is under rapid development. Could I know the current status of Ironic and the suitable time to shift from nova baremetal to Ironic? Regards, Taurus

[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Delete disk image in nova after deploy image to bare-metal machine

2014-02-07 Thread Taurus Cheung
Hi I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova bare-metal. In current architecture, disk images are kept at /var/lib/nova/instances after the image is written (by dd) to the hard disk of bare-metal machines. But these disk images file are no longer needed. Does nova

[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Support configurable inject items in nova Bare-metal

2014-02-07 Thread Taurus Cheung
Hi, I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova bare-metal. In current design, some files like hostname, network config file and meta.json are injected into the image before writing to bare-metal machines. Can we control which items to be injected into the image?

[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Support multiple image write workers in nova bare-metal

2014-02-07 Thread Taurus Cheung
Hi, I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova bare-metal. In existing implementation in nova-baremetal-deploy-helper.py, there's only 1 worker to write image to bare-metal machines. If there is a number of bare-metal instances to deploy, they need to queue up and wait

[openstack-dev] [nova][baremetal] Partition layout of image used in nova bare-metal

2014-02-07 Thread Taurus Cheung
Hi, I am working on deploying images to bare-metal machines using nova bare-metal. In current design, nova bare-metal would first write a partition layout of root partition and swap partition, then write the image to root partition. It seems that the logic assumes there's no partition table