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Hello Travis,

We didn't researched Savanna on bare metal, though we considered it some
time ago. I know little of bare metal provisioning, so I am rather unsure
what problems you might experience.

My main concern are images: does bare metal provisioning work with qcow2
images? Vanilla plugin (which installs Vanilla Apache Hadoop) requires a
pre-built Linux images with Hadoop, so if qcow2 does not work for bare
metal, you will need to somehow build images in required format. On the
other hand HDP plugin (which installs Hortonworks Data Platform), does not
require pre-built images, but works only on Red Hat OSes, as far as I know.

Another concern: does bare metal support cloud-init? Savanna relies on it
and reimplementing that functionality some other way might take some time.

As for your concern on which API calls Savanna makes: it is a pretty small
list of requests. Mainly authentication with keystone, basic operations
with VMs via nova (create, list, terminate), basic operations with images
(list, set/get attributes). Snapshots are not used. That is for basic
functionality. Other than that, some features might require additional API
calls. For instance Cinder support naturally requires calls for volume
create/list/delete.

Thanks,

Dmitry



2013/10/25 Tripp, Travis S <travis.tripp at hp.com>

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> I’ve just skimmed through the online documentation and I’m very interested
> in this project. We have a grizzly environment with all the latest patches
> as well as several Havana backports applied. We are are doing bare metal
> provisioning through Nova.  It is limited to flat networking.****
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> Would Savanna work in this environment?  What are the requirements?  What
> are the minimum set of API calls that need to supported (for example, we
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