At the Diablo summit, there were several people who expressed interest in using OpenStack to do bare-metal provisioning of nodes as an alternative to virtualization. We're using this approach at ISI to support Tilera hardware. Our implementation is Tilera-specific, but we'd like to build a more general solution so people could use it for other backends, and to support interfacing with existing provisioning solutions such as xCat, Perceus, and Heckle. I've set up a group on Launchpad with a mailing list for those who are interested in this type of functionality to discuss backends. Web page: https://launchpad.net/~nova-bare-metal Mailing list: nova-bare-metal at lists.launchpad.net Take care, Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein, Computer Scientist USC Information Sciences Institute 703.812.3710 http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20110503/e340b155/attachment.html>