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Re: What bare-metal provisioning tools are you using?

 

I think that is the goal, but starting by building a new provisioning
system isn't really the quickest way to get there ;)

>From our end, we use custom stuff (Heckle, which has been released,
but we are nearly done replacing with something better)
 -nld

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Silly question...  can't we aim to use Nova ? Clearly not yet supported but there are lots of really good operational benefits that would come from the possibility to integrate bare-metal and guests into the same infrastructure.
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> Despite the ongoing optimisations of hypervisors, there are still good use cases especially with high levels of small block random I/O where virtualisation has too high a cost.  On the other hand, I don't want to lose the benefits of an orchestrator with multi-tenant and dashboards.
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> Tim Bell
> CERN
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