Russell,
So are you talking about deploying infrastructure node into an
existing cloud? Meaning xCAT deploys a stateful, baremetal node and add it
into an existing cloud. That node can host VMs in the cloud, correct?
The xCAT baremetal driver for OpenStack is from an different angle, the
baremetal node is like a VM for the tenant. It is deployed upon the
request of the tenant and used by the tenant just like a VM.
The xCAT-chef solution for OpenStack deployment starts a new cloud as
you mentioned.
Ling
From: Russell Jones <[email protected]>
To: [email protected],
Date: 05/05/2014 05:55 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Cloud bursting
I am not very familiar with OpenStack and the terminology so it's quite
possible I missed it, but the xCAT documentation for OpenStack seemed to
be about deploying into (and setting up your own) completely bare
OpenStack cloud. I'm not looking to have a completely separate cluster.
That can be done somewhat-easily enough by just treating any VM host as a
cloud host and just purchasing/running multiple VMs.
I am hoping to be able to control and deploy additional compute nodes from
a provider's own cloud infrastructure without needing to know the
internals of the infrastructure itself. The cloud nodes would, in a
perfect world, be transparent to the end user and work just as if they
were local compute nodes. Just set, for example, "nodehm.mgt=CloudX", then
"nodeset osimage" and go. Clearly more configuration will have to come
before that but you get the gist. :-)
The VMWare how-to in xCAT is close to what I am trying to achieve.
On 5/5/2014 4:36 PM, John van Ommen wrote:
What about RackSpace? They're OpenStack.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Russell Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks! That does, a bit. Looking to aim more for deployment into an
already-existing hosted cloud infrastructure as opposed to having to roll
your own :-)
On 5/5/2014 3:58 PM, Ling Gao wrote:
Russel,
I can bring the topic to the team to discuss.
Currently xCAT has a OpenStack baremetal driver that allows you to deploy
baremetal nodes in a OpenStack cloud. You can:
1. register xCAT nodes into OpenStack
2. register xCAT images into OpenStack
3. deploy baremetal node using OpenStack command (nova boot), and it in
turn calls xCAT to deploy the node.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Using_xCAT_in_OpenStack_Baremetal_Node_Deployment
In addition to this, xCAT also has the support to setup OpenStack cloud.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Deploying_OpenStack
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Ling
From: Russell Jones <[email protected]>
To: [email protected],
Date: 05/05/2014 04:40 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Cloud bursting
Sure!
So, for example, Rocks has an "EC2" roll that allegedly allows you to
"deploy" nodes into the Amazon EC2 infrastructure (it's really an image
upload into Amazon's network). There are also features in the roll that
can create tunnels from your EC2 cluster back to your local hardware so
that the EC2 nodes can be part of your private cluster network.
I am curious if there is anything on the roadmap for xCAT to be able to do
something similar. I recognize that there are a whole lot of other pieces
that would need to be figured out to truly have a useable cluster that
also has semi-transparent "cloud" nodes, but just being able to deploy
EC2/Google Cloud/etc nodes via xCAT commands would be a big step.
Thanks for your help!
On 5/5/2014 3:00 PM, Ling Gao wrote:
Hi Russel,
Can you be more specific on the meaning of "deployment into any cloud
provider's infrastructure" ?
Thanks,
Ling
From: Russell Jones <[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>,
Date: 05/05/2014 02:56 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] Cloud bursting
Hi all,
Didn't get a response on my last post for this, so thought I would reach
out again. We have a customer that is interested in utilizing xCAT to
deploy and run jobs in a cloud provider of some sort. Does xCAT support
deployment into any cloud provider's infrastructure?
Thanks!
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