[openstack-dev] [TripleO] [Ironic] Roadmap towards heterogenous hardware support

Jaromir Coufal jcoufal at redhat.com
Tue Feb 4 17:52:15 UTC 2014


On 2014/03/02 12:23, Tomas Sedovic wrote:
> My apologies for firing this off and then hiding under the FOSDEM rock.
>
> In light of the points raised by Devananda and Robert, I no longer think
> fiddling with the scheduler is the way to go.
>
> Note this was never intended to break/confuse all TripleO users -- I
> considered it a cleaner equivalent to entering incorrect HW specs (i.e.
> instead of doing that you would switch to this other filter in nova.conf).
>
> Regardless, I stand corrected on the distinction between heterogeneous
> hardware all the way and having a flavour per service definition. That
> was a very good point to raise.
>
> I'm fine with both approaches.
>
> So yeah, let's work towards having a single Node Profile (flavor)
> associated with each Deployment Role (pages 12 & 13 of the latest
> mockups[1]), optionally starting with requiring all the Node Profiles to
> be equal.
I think here is a small misinterpretation. All Node Profiles don't have 
to be equal. We just support one Node Profile association per role.

> Once that's working fine, we can look into the harder case of having
> multiple Node Profiles within a Deployment Role.
>
> Is everyone comfortable with that?
>
> Tomas
>
> [1]:
> http://people.redhat.com/~jcoufal/openstack/tripleo/2014-01-27_tripleo-ui-icehouse.pdf

+1 for this approach.

-- Jarda



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