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On 09/15/2014 04:08 PM, Steven Hardy wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 05:51:43PM +0000, Jay Faulkner wrote:
>> Steven,
>>
>> It's important to note that two of the blueprints you reference:
>>
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/drac-raid-mgmt
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/drac-hw-discovery
>>
>> are both very unlikely to land in Ironic -- these are configuration
>> and discovery pieces that best fit inside a operator-deployed CMDB,
>> rather than Ironic trying to extend its scope significantly to
>> include these type of functions. I expect the scoping or Ironic
>> with regards to hardware discovery/interrogation as well as
>> configuration of hardware (like I will outline below) to be hot
>> topics in Ironic design summit sessions at Paris.
>
> Hmm, okay - not sure I really get how a CMDB is going to help you
> configure your RAID arrays in an automated way?

FWIW, we used Chef to configure all of our RAID stuff at AT&T. It worked 
just fine for Dell and LSI controllers.

-jay