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On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Pasquale Porreca <
pasquale.porreca at dektech.com.au> wrote:

> The use case we were thinking about is a Network Function (e.g. IMS Nodes)
> implementation in which the high availability is based on OpenSAF. In this
> scenario there is an Active/Standby cluster of 2 System Controllers (SC)
> plus several Payloads (PL) that boot from network, controlled by the SC.
> The logic of which service to deploy on each payload is inside the SC.
>
> In OpenStack both SCs and PLs will be instances running in the cloud,
> anyway the PLs should still boot from network under the control of the SC.
> In fact to use Glance to store the image for the PLs and keep the control
> of the PLs in the SC, the SC should trigger the boot of the PLs with
> requests to Nova/Glance, but an application running inside an instance
> should not directly interact with a cloud infrastructure service like
> Glance or Nova.
>

Why not? This is a fairly common practice.


>
> We know that it is yet possible to achieve network booting in OpenStack
> using an image stored in Glance that acts like a pxe client, anyway this
> workaround has some drawbacks, mainly due to the fact it won't be possible
> to choose the specific virtual NIC on which the network boot will happen,
> causing DHCP requests to flow on networks where they don't belong to and
> possible delays in the boot of the instances.
>
>
> On 11/27/14 00:32, Steve Gordon wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> From: "Angelo Matarazzo" <angelo.matarazzo at dektech.com.au>
>>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
>>> openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> my team and I are working on pxe boot feature very similar to the
>>> "Discless VM" one  in Active blueprint list[1]
>>> The blueprint [2] is no longer active and we created a new spec [3][4].
>>>
>>> Nova core reviewers commented our spec and the first and the most
>>> important objection is that there is not a compelling reason to
>>> provide this kind of feature : booting from network.
>>>
>>> Aside from the specific implementation, I think that some members of
>>> TelcoWorkingGroup could be interested in  and provide a use case.
>>> I would also like to add this item to the agenda of next meeting
>>>
>>> Any thought?
>>>
>> We did discuss this today, and granted it is listed as a blueprint
>> someone in the group had expressed interest in at a point in time - though
>> I don't believe any further work was done. The general feeling was that
>> there isn't anything really NFV or Telco specific about this over and above
>> the more generic use case of legacy applications. Are you able to further
>> elaborate on the reason it's NFV or Telco specific other than because of
>> who is requesting it in this instance?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Steve
>>
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