Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers

2017-11-21 Thread Julia Kreger
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Waines, Greg wrote: > i am now thinking that perhaps i am thinking of a USE CASE that is NOT the > typical IRONIC USE CASE. \o/ > i.e. > > I think the ‘typical’ IRONIC USE CASE is that there are a pool of physical > servers > that are

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers

2017-11-21 Thread Waines, Greg
enstack-dev@lists.openstack.org" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>, Greg Waines <greg.wai...@windriver.com> Cc: "Nasir, Shoaib" <shoaib.na...@windriver.com> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers Hi Greg, How do these smaller devices allow you

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers

2017-11-21 Thread Waines, Greg
1:28 AM To: "openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> Cc: "Nasir, Shoaib" <shoaib.na...@windriver.com> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers This is issue I hit recently. There are staging drivers [1] an

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers

2017-11-21 Thread Ilya Etingof
Hi Greg, How do these smaller devices allow you to manage their power state? Typically you have a side-computer (AKA bare-metal controller) which is always up so you can talk to it (via IPMI/Redfish/SNMP/ssh) to manage power state of its big brother. The pxe_ssh driver is about libvirt VMs

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers

2017-11-21 Thread Lukas Bezdicka
This is issue I hit recently. There are staging drivers [1] and there is virtualbmc [2] to emulate ipmi for virtual machines. I ended up using pxe_wol_isci driver. [1] - http://ironic-staging-drivers.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html [2] - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualbmc/1.2.0 On Tue,

[openstack-dev] [ironic] Question about pxe_ssh drivers

2017-11-21 Thread Waines, Greg
Hey, We have been integrating OpenStack Ironic into our own OpenStack Distribution. Thanks to help from the mailing list, we’ve been able to successfully ‘nova boot’ a bare metal instance on an ironic node using the pxe_ipmitool drivers. Thanks again for all the help. A QUESTION about some