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On 05/05/2014 10:51 AM, Steve Gordon wrote:

> In addition extra specifications may denote the passthrough of additional devices, adding another dimension. This seems likely to be the case in the use case outlined in the original thread [1].
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> Thanks,
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> Steve
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> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/018744.html

Agreed.

The ability to set arbitrary metadata on the flavor means that you could 
realistically have many different flavors all with identical virtual 
hardware but different metadata.

As one example, the flavor metadata can be used to match against host 
aggregate metadata.

Chris