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My users are mostly happy with VMs, but I get occasional requests
for physical hardware in order to host databases, run performance
tests, etc. I'd love to rack a dozen small servers and graft the
ironic service onto my existing cloud in order to fulfill these
sporadic needs. I'm given pause, though, by this doc section:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#configure-compute-to-use-the-bare-metal-service">http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#configure-compute-to-use-the-bare-metal-service</a><br>
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For example, this:<br>
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compute_driver=nova.virt.ironic.IronicDriver<br>
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That would have me changing nova settings in such a way that would
clearly make nova /only/ support bare-metal, disabling its
virtualization facilities. Does that mean that bare metal is really
an either/or proposition, or is there some way to make bare metal
and virt services coexist on a single nova installation? Or is
there an in-between option that involves installing a second nova
stack on different nodes with a different config?<br>
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-- Bonus Question --<br>
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I'm still using nova-network. Is anyone using ironic without
neutron? Or, if not, is that at least theoretically possible?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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-Andrew<br>
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