<div dir="ltr">Hello Travis,<div><br></div><div>We didn't researched Savanna on bare metal, though we considered it some time ago. I know little of bare metal provisioning, so I am rather unsure what problems you might experience.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My main concern are images: does bare metal provisioning work with qcow2 images? Vanilla plugin (which installs Vanilla Apache Hadoop) requires a pre-built Linux images with Hadoop, so if qcow2 does not work for bare metal, you will need to somehow build images in required format. On the other hand HDP plugin (which installs Hortonworks Data Platform), does not require pre-built images, but works only on Red Hat OSes, as far as I know.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another concern: does bare metal support cloud-init? Savanna relies on it and reimplementing that functionality some other way might take some time.</div><div><br></div><div>As for your concern on which API calls Savanna makes: it is a pretty small list of requests. Mainly authentication with keystone, basic operations with VMs via nova (create, list, terminate), basic operations with images (list, set/get attributes). Snapshots are not used. That is for basic functionality. Other than that, some features might require additional API calls. For instance Cinder support naturally requires calls for volume create/list/delete.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Dmitry </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/25 Tripp, Travis S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:travis.tripp@hp.com" target="_blank">travis.tripp@hp.com</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve just skimmed through the online documentation and I’m very interested in this project. We have a grizzly environment with all the latest patches as well as several Havana backports applied. We are are doing bare metal provisioning
through Nova. It is limited to flat networking.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would Savanna work in this environment? What are the requirements? What are the minimum set of API calls that need to supported (for example, we can’t support snapshots)?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Travis<u></u><u></u></p>
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