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On 26 April 2013 22:29, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey
...
> Not much detail there, but BareMetalConnection/BareMetalNode would be in
> the library and BareMetalDriver would be the Nova part. I hadn't figured
> on this being a service with its own REST API, but perhaps that does
> make sense.

The main reason for it to be a REST service is that cinder needs to speak to it.

Basically a bare metal node contributes to *both* compute and storage
pools, and so both nova and cinder need to manage that - to reserve
capacity; there is no reason for nova to be special cased and own it
more than cinder.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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