[node-devel] Needed: Node and Engine cooperation

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Barry" <phresus at gmail.com>
> To: arch at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:19:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [node-devel] Needed: Node and Engine cooperation
> 
> 
> On 10/28/2013 09:00 AM, arch-request at ovirt.org wrote:
> > I do not see the benefit of this. All (non-wifi) nics of a host are
> > reported by Vdsm to Engine and thus manage-able by the latter.
> Part of the argument for this is for a non-VDSM node. We're already
> shipping base node images, and any uptake (whether internal or external)
> for another use may benefit. Not that we're currently doing it, but
> Neutron/Quantum explicitly recommend having an unconfigured NIC for
> tenant traffic, and a hypothetical Node+Nova+Neutron image would see a
> large benefit from a configuration key which allowed some NICs to be
> configured while leaving others (for GRE/VLAN tenant traffic) locked.

This is up to the administrator to decide / change.
We cannot (and I think we should not) protect administrator from him-self.
Once computer had been added to manager, it should be managed by manager, if administrator finds a reason to locally manage a centralized remote managed host, it is probably because there is some kind of problem.

Regards,
Alon