<div dir="ltr">Zach:<div><br></div><div>I think you can use availability zones for this. Set the node_availability_zone flag in nova.conf to, say, "zone1" for the compute hosts in one pool, and "zone2" for the other one. </div>
<div><br></div><div style>When you call "nova boot" to start an instance, use the --availability-zone flag to specify zone1 or zone2.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Take care,</div><div style><br></div><div style>
Lorin</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Zach Easterbrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fishlikehexagon@gmail.com" target="_blank">fishlikehexagon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi there, I'm an intern at a tech company and we're beginning to use openstack for a project within my team. Right now we have a small rack with 7 servers- one of these is set up as the controller node with glance / keystone / horizon / nova stuff, etc., The other 6 servers are very basic and just have the nova-api, nova-cert, nova-compute, and nova-network packages installed.<div>
<br></div><div>So you may have noticed we're on essex for now..we tried getting folsom to work but there were some hiccups.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know how we could separate our compute nodes into two different pools and then be able to deploy a VM to one of the pools? i.e, we'd put three nodes into pool1 and 3 into pool2, then from the CLI / web interface we'd be able to select pool1 as the target of deployment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If anyone has any ideas let me know, it'd be appreciated. If I'm on the wrong track letting me know about that would also be appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards.</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Lorin Hochstein<br><div>Lead Architect - Cloud Services</div><div>Nimbis Services, Inc.</div><div><a href="http://www.nimbisservices.com" target="_blank">www.nimbisservices.com</a></div>
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