[Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/02/2013 05:29 PM, NOC wrote:
> On 08/21/2013 12:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 08/21/2013 02:40 AM, Joop van de Wege wrote:
>>>
>>> What I would like to see in the ! next version is pxe boot of the nodes.
>>> Probably not easy to achieve because of dependency on dhcp.
>>
>> Hi Joop,
>>
>> can you please give a bit more information on the use case / how you
>> envision this?
>>
>> current thinking around bare metal provisioning of hosts is to extend
>> the functionality around the foreman provider for this, but you may
>> have other suggestions?
>
> I think Joop means to be able to add hosts (nodes) to a cluster by
> adding their MAC address to the dhcp list for PXE boot into ovirt-node
> and thus join the cluster. This would make it easy to add new physical
> nodes without any spinning disks or other local storage requirements.

we started adding foreman integration in 3.3:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ForemanIntegration

adding ohad and oved for their thoughts on this.

>
> I suppose this may not be easy with complex network connections (bonds
> on mgmt network, mgmt network on a tagged vlan, etc), but it should be
> possible if the management network interface is plain and physical.
>
> /Simon
>
> PS, Perhaps Joop can confirm this idea, we've talked about it IRL.
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