Open Stack

On 07/02/2018 09:45 AM, Houssam ElBouanani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently finished installing a minimal OpenStack Queens 
> environment for a school project, and was asked whether it is possible 
> to deploy an additional compute node on bare metal, aka without an 
> underlying operating system, in order to eliminate the operating system 
> overhead and thus to maximize performance.

Whomever asked you about this must be confusing a *hypervisor* with an 
operating system. Using baremetal means you eliminate the overhead of 
the *hypervisor* (virtualization). It doesn't mean you eliminate the 
operating system. You can't do much of anything with a baremetal machine 
that has no operating system on it.

Best,
-jay