<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Hello Mike, all.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">We are planning to support both virtual and physical resources in Climate. There are several documents that describe our view on how this service should look like:</p>

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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Resource-reservation-service">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Resource-reservation-service</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">[2] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsN9LLq9pEP4c5BJyfG8g2TecoPxWqIY4WMT1juNBPI/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsN9LLq9pEP4c5BJyfG8g2TecoPxWqIY4WMT1juNBPI/edit?usp=sharing</a></p>

<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">[3] <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprint-nova-planned-resource-reservation-api">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprint-nova-planned-resource-reservation-api</a></p>

<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">[4] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-August/013415.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-August/013415.html</a></p>

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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">[1] and [2] is mostly about virtual reservations, [3] - physical. Now we have several Bps and Wiki pages, so we need to prepare one document for all these thoughts, I suppose.</p>

<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">[4] is our (Mirantis + XLcloud guys) discussion about how Climate should look like. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Generally speaking, for the virtual resources we should provide the opportunity not only to schedule VM, volume or stack or anything else in the future, but also to make user sure he will have the resources to run his virtual resources in that future. That means not only creating schedule to run/suspend virtual resources, but to create these resources some time before lease actually starts in special 'RESERVED' status.</p>

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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">You may take a look on the links I mentioned (but really, we need to create new document describing all features and architectural moments Climate team is now thinking about).</p>

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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Thank you</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Dina</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Mike Spreitzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mspreitz@us.ibm.com" target="_blank">mspreitz@us.ibm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="sans-serif">Climate is about reserving resources.  Are
those physical resources or virtual ones?  Where was I supposed to
read the answer to basic questions like that?</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif">If climate is about reserving virtual
resources, how is that different from "scheduling" them?</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font>
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Best regards,</p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0px;font-family:Helvetica">Dina Belova</p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0px;font-family:Helvetica">Software Engineer</p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0px;font-family:Helvetica">
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