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On 10/25/2013 09:22 AM, Dmitry Mescheryakov wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely works with qcow2 images. We should start a conversation about
savana and diskimage-builder too, btw.

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

Absolutely. (as long as the image has cloud-init in it of course)

> 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.

I'm excited to see an exploration of savana on nova-baremetal.

> 
> 2013/10/25 Tripp, Travis S <travis.tripp at hp.com
> <mailto:travis..tripp at hp.com>>
> 
>     Hello Savanna team,____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     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.____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     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 can’t support snapshots)?____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     Thank you,____
> 
>     Travis____
> 
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