<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:32 PM, wu jiang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wingwj@gmail.com" target="_blank">wingwj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Can someone give me some idea what's the difference between 'host' and 'node'? </div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if it is because compute host will control other physical server (host or node?) in baremetal scene, so we need to distinguish? </div>
<div>But I'm not sure about it.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi wingwj,<div><br></div><div>According to <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal#Terminology">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal#Terminology</a> the "host" is where nova-compute runs, and is what provisions baremetal "instances" onto baremetal "nodes". The "host" is the controller, whereas the "node" is the physical machine where an "instance" is deployed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Not that I'm an expert, but that I'm playing with this right now :)</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div><br></div><div>Michael...</div></div><div>-- <br></div></div><div dir="ltr">
Michael Davies <a href="mailto:michael@the-davies.net" target="_blank">michael@the-davies.net</a><div><br></div></div>
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