Excerpts from Chris Jones's message of 2014-03-12 13:07:21 -0700: > Hey > > I wanted to throw out an idea that came to me while I was working on > diagnosing some hardware issues in the Tripleo CD rack at the sprint last > week. > > Specifically, if a particular node has been dropped from automatic > scheduling by the operator, I think it would be super useful to be able to > still manually schedule the node. Examples might be that someone is > diagnosing a hardware issue and wants to boot an image that has all their > favourite diagnostic tools in it, or they might be booting an image they > use for updating firmwares, etc (frankly, just being able to boot a > generic, unmodified host OS on a node can be super useful if you're trying > to crash cart the machine for something hardware related). > > Any thoughts? :) >
+1 from me, as I've been in the exact same boat (perhaps the same piece of hardware even. ;) I imagine it as a nova scheduler hint that finds its way into Ironic eventually. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
