Hi list! There is an idea of making use of hardware composition (e.g. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/rack-scale-architecture/intel-rack-scale-architecture-resources.html) to create nodes for ironic. The current proposal is: 1. To create hardware-compositor service under ironic umbrella to manage this composition process. Its initial implementation will support Intel RSA, other technologies may be added in future. At the beginning, it will contain the most basic CRUD logic for composed system. 2. Add logic to nova to compose a node using this new project and register it in ironic if the scheduler is not able to find any ironic node matching the flavor. An alternative (as pointed out by Devananda during yesterday's meeting) could be using it in ironic by claims API when it's implemented ( https://review.openstack.org/204641). 3. If implemented in nova, there will be no changes to ironic right now (apart from needing the driver to manage these composed nodes, which is redfish I beleive), but there are cases when it may be useful to call this service from ironic directly, e.g. to free the resources when a node is deleted. Thoughts? Thanks, Vlad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20151201/81706de8/attachment.html>