On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 02:05:49PM -0700, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > Yes, baremetal implies not inside a system vm, so it could run in a VM > whose lifecycle is not controlled by CloudStack.
Great! That's what thought. You might want to update to be a little more clear about it though, because I know that many folks actually operate smaller HV clusters specifically for management systems. The wording may be confusing to folks evaluating the feature. > > On 3/25/13 1:44 PM, "Chip Childers" <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:54:09PM -0700, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > >> To enable a cloud to start quicker, I am proposing that system vms be > >>made optional in the boot-up of a CloudStack Cloud. > >> I'm working on the 'quickcloud' branch and the detailed proposal is > >>here: > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/clnVAQ > >> > > > >+1 to this proposal. Just to confirm one thing though... when you say > >"run alternately on baremetal", I assume you actually mean that the > >services in question would run within an OS (baremetal or virtual) > >outside the control domain of the CS management server. Correct? > >