[OpenStack-Infra] Adding ARM64 cloud to infra

Paul Belanger pabelanger at redhat.com
Thu Apr 12 13:03:34 UTC 2018


On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 09:00:15AM -0400, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:11:23PM +0000, Frank Jansen wrote:
> > Hi Ian,
> > 
> > do you have any insight into the availability of a physical environment for the ARM64 cloud?
> > 
> > I’m curious, as there may be a need for downstream testing, which I would assume will want to make use of our existing OSP CI framework.
> > 
> The hardware is donated by Linaro and the first cloud is currently located in
> China. As for details of hardware, I recently asked hrw in #openstack-infra and
> this was his reply:
> 
>   hrw | pabelanger: misc aarch64 servers with 32+GB of ram and some GB/TB of storage. different vendors. That's probably the closest to what I can say
>   hrw | pabelanger: some machines may be under NDA, some never reached mass market, some are mass market available, some are no longer mass market available.
> 
> As for downstream testing, are you looking for arm64 hardware or hoping to use
> the Linaro clouds for the testing.
> 
Also, I just noticed this was from Jan 15th, but only just showed up in my
inbox. Sorry for the noise, and will try to look at headers before replying :)

Paul



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