This is pretty clearly operating as intended: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/virt/ironic/driver.py#n892
There are changes in progress to support soft reboot via ACPI (or similar) ** Changed in: nova Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1485416 Title: Soft reboot doesn't work for bare metal. Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Won't Fix Bug description: When we use ironic, we can't reboot a bare metal instance with a graceful shutdown. We execute "nova reboot" command without "--hard" option. However, it performs a hard reboot. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1485416/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp