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Hi Jay,

Thank you for your comments.


2016-11-14 2:19 GMT+09:00 Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>:
> On 11/13/2016 01:52 AM, Akira Yoshiyama wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> 2016-11-13 3:12 GMT+09:00 Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On 11/12/2016 09:31 AM, Akira Yoshiyama wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Stackers,
>>>>
>>>> In TripleO, Ironic provides physical servers for an OpenStack
>>>> deployment but we have to configure physical storages manually, or
>>>> with any tool, if required. It's better that an OpenStack service
>>>> manages physical storages as same as Ironic for servers.
>>>>
>>>> IMO, there are 2 plans to manage physical storages:
>>>
>>>
>>> When you say "manage physical storage" are you referring to configuring
>>> something like Ceph or GlusterFS or even NFS on a bunch of baremetal
>>> servers?
>>
>>
>> No. "physical storages" means storage products like EMC VNX, NetApp
>> Data ONTAP, HPE Lefthand and so on.
>> Say there is a new service named X to manage them. A user, he/she will
>> be a new IaaS admin, requests many baremetal servers to Ironic and
>> some baremetal storages to X. After they are provided, he/she will
>> start to build a new OpenStack deployment with them. Nova in the new
>> one will provide VMs on the servers and Cinder will manage logical
>> volumes on the storages. X doesn't manage each logical volume but
>> pools, user accounts and network connections of the storages.
>
>
> Yeah, I personally believe that is the domain of configuration management
> systems not OpenStack HTTP API services. What you are describing is not a
> multi-tenant HTTP API service, it's an IT/storage admin automation tool.
>
> Incidentally, Ironic isn't multi-tenant either. It lives in the weird land
> in OpenStack of being an HTTP API service that isn't meant for "normal
> users" so in order to provider a cloud service (BareMetal-as-a-Service),
> Ironic *requires* Nova to provide the multi-tenancy aspects of the
> "as-a-Service" part of the software.

Hmm... so, if I built a (multi-tenant) baremetal IaaS service like SoftLayer
with OpenStack Newton release, tenant users can deploy an OpenStack
environment with cinder using SDS on it. No physical storages.


> Ironic is great, of course, but it ain't a cloud service without help from
> Nova.
>
> Best,
> -jay

BR,
Akira
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