Might want to say, "bare-metal to fully-provisioned production services" and take out cluster, because cluster is prone to imply one service, where Crowbar deploys many services.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Adam Spiers <aspi...@suse.com> wrote: > I think the problem here is that "move" is a confusing choice of verb, > because Crowbar doesn't really move anything: rather it transforms the > state of those servers. I've fixed the wording. > > Simon Jakesch (simon_jake...@dell.com) wrote: > > Matthew, > > > > let me try and answer your questions. In the referenced blurb physical > nodes refers to the actual server/box/computer/physical compute unit. > Whereas bare-metal is referring to the state (specifically as far as > software is concerned) of said physical node. Put more simply, we're > talking about servers without any software or any type of configuration > whatsoever performed on them. > > Configuring and installing those servers is referred to as "moving" them > from one state (bare-metal) to the next state where they are configured, > installed and part of a cluster. > > > > Hope this doesn't just make sense to me, let me know if you have further > questions. > > Simon > > > > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Work > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:48 PM > > To: crowbar > > Subject: [Crowbar] What is Crowbar exactly? > > > > Hello Dell, > > > > Your home page for the Crowbar project ( > http://crowbar.github.io/home.html)'s big top blurb says > > > > "The Crowbar Project is an effort to build a complete, easy to use > operational platform for everyone. It allows for any number of physical > nodes to be moved from bare-metal to production cluster within hours." > > > > What do you mean by 'any number of *physical nodes* to be //moved// from > *bare-metal* to *production cluster*? > > > > What is the definition of a physical node, and how is it different from > bare-metal? > > > > A production cluster makes sense; I assume it is a cluster of physical > bare-metal nodes. So this leads to the final question: What are you moving > and from where? > > > > Thanks, > > Matthew Kaufman > > SPCLOPS.COM<http://SPCLOPS.COM> | 202-407-7998 > > > _______________________________________________ > > Crowbar mailing list > > Crowbar@dell.com > > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > > For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Crowbar mailing list > Crowbar@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/ > -- Judd Maltin T: 917-882-1270 F: 501-694-7809 what could possibly go wrong?
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