[Rdo-list] Packstack and rdo-manager, looking forward.

[Hugh O. Brock]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 06:04:57PM -0400, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 08/14/2015 10:56 PM, Outback Dingo wrote:
> >Id plainly like to see a breakdown of how this compares to say FUEL, or
> >HP Helion, or IBMs openstack deployments
> >Though Id also like to see someone get RDO to work with XENServer
> >deployments also, seems RDO is pretty much kvm based only
> 
> While any compute nodes deployed by RDO would be KVM nodes, I don't see any
> reason that someone couldn't add Hyper-V, ESX or Xen nodes to Nova's compute
> pool with RDO - the bits are the same as upstream Nova, and of course
> whether such a configuration is supported is not an issue.
> 
> In fact, I'm pretty sure that CERN deploys Hyper-V and KVM nodes using RDO.
> I don't see any reason why someone couldn't do the same with Xen, and
> document any issues they have on rdoproject.org
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave.

For what it's worth, Ironic supports all kinds of interesting power
drivers, way more than just IPMI. DRAC, ILO, AMT, ssh (for virt), WOL (a
super-simple wake-on-lan driver that only knows how to power machines
on), etc. cc-ing Lucas for more info.

--Hugh


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== Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
== Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering                   ==
== RDO Manager: Install, configure, and scale OpenStack            ==
== http://rdoproject.org                                           ==

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