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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Julien Danjou <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06 2012, Graf Lucas (graflu0) wrote:
>
>> I'm a little confused now... ;) Is the bare metal run by the platform
>> operator the physical machine? What do you mean with the bare metal
>> run to replace virtual instances for any project?
>
> AFAIU, bare-metal provisionning is about using hardware (bare-metal)
> rather than virtual instances as a flavor in Nova.
> For such case, we won't be able to poll anything about the hardware.
>
> For hardware ran by the operator, this will be doable.

We can still talk to the IPMI controller for the machine, which will
get us lots of info, without running agents in the host os.

-Rob



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Robert Collins <rbtcollins@xxxxxx>
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HP Cloud Services