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Excerpts from Chris Jones's message of 2014-03-12 13:07:21 -0700:
> Hey
> 
> I wanted to throw out an idea that came to me while I was working on
> diagnosing some hardware issues in the Tripleo CD rack at the sprint last
> week.
> 
> Specifically, if a particular node has been dropped from automatic
> scheduling by the operator, I think it would be super useful to be able to
> still manually schedule the node. Examples might be that someone is
> diagnosing a hardware issue and wants to boot an image that has all their
> favourite diagnostic tools in it, or they might be booting an image they
> use for updating firmwares, etc (frankly, just being able to boot a
> generic, unmodified host OS on a node can be super useful if you're trying
> to crash cart the machine for something hardware related).
> 
> Any thoughts? :)
> 

+1 from me, as I've been in the exact same boat (perhaps the same piece
of hardware even. ;)

I imagine it as a nova scheduler hint that finds its way into Ironic
eventually.