On Mar 19, 2015 2:03 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
What is meant by "real hardware" ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_metal_%28computer%29
Can we have some at Labs please?
Labs nodes provisioned for and by labs users are virtual machines.
Labs has dedicated bare metal just for labs but it is not directly exposed to labs users.
We could theoretically copy the approach at http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal but that probably would not be a very good allocation of resources. (both capital and human) Labs is well suited for virtualization. (nova and the other OSM, OpenstackManager are not perfect. We can and do fix them and if needed can explore other options. but bare metal is unnecessary for all labs workloads I'm aware of)
-Jeremy