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This should be set higher than the number of nodes in the deployment, because otherwise nova will continue to pick the same nodes as instances cycle out, meaning some machines may never be used while others get many instances provisioned. This also helps with scheduler races when booting a large number of instances at the same time. Change-Id: I5a898616743105fe5410d7370a91e5c60120b596
Ironic
Ironic is an integrated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI together to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
Project Resources
- Free software: Apache license
- Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic
- Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic
- Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic
- Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic
Project status, bugs and RFEs (requests for feature enhancements) are tracked on Launchpad:
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