<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Is your statement based on the setup noted in the "OpenStack Install and Deploy Manual"? I am question was more specific to the setup covered in the afore mentioned document.</div><div><br></div><div>In general, does the answer not depend on what services are installed on the controller node, to give it "ability" to be a compute node also?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ahmed.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Pengjun Pan <<a href="mailto:panpengjun@gmail.com">panpengjun@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:58 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Ahmed Al-Mehdi <<a href="mailto:ahmed@coraid.com">ahmed@coraid.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Openstack] Controller node vs. compute node terminology<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
The controller node can not host vms. But an All-in-one node can, because it is a combination of controller and compute.
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Ahmed Al-Mehdi <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:ahmed@coraid.com" target="_blank">ahmed@coraid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>I am following the document "OpenStack Deploy and Install Guide" to bring up a OpenStack setup. Per the instructions in the document, is the controller node also acting as the compute node. By that I mean when a VM is created, it created on the controller
node. Is that right? And then there are steps to create additional (sole) compute nodes. Is that a correct view of looking at the setup described in the document.</div><div><br></div><div>Server 1 : Controller node / Compute node</div><div>Server 2: Compute node</div><div><br></div><div>If so, is that the usual deployment scenario?</div><div><br></div><div>Any thoughts would be highly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ahmed.</div><div> </div></div><br>
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