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Re: Bare metal provisioning group

 

+1 on this. It is a very cool feature and I hope we can eventually support it.

Vish

On May 3, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote:

> At the Diablo summit, there were several people who expressed interest in using OpenStack to do bare-metal provisioning of nodes as an alternative to virtualization. We're using this approach at ISI to support Tilera hardware. Our implementation is Tilera-specific, but we'd like to build a more general solution so people could use it for other backends, and to support interfacing with existing provisioning solutions such as xCat, Perceus, and Heckle.
> 
> I've set up a group on Launchpad with a mailing list for those who are interested in this type of functionality to discuss backends.
> 
> Web page: https://launchpad.net/~nova-bare-metal
> Mailing list: nova-bare-metal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Lorin
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> USC Information Sciences Institute
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