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[Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxx>]

Yeah, we wanted to try to leverage the existing provisioning tools first rather than writing our own version of  (xCat | Cobbler | Heckle | Perceus | Warewulf | OSCAR ) from scratch. However, as Narayan alluded to, I suspect that eventually someone will eventually implement a provisioning back-end entirely within the nova framework.

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On Jul 11, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Narayan Desai wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Tim Bell
>> CERN
>> 
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