Please note: This schedule is for OpenStack Active Technical Contributors participating in the Icehouse Design Summit sessions in Hong Kong. These are working sessions to determine the roadmap of the Icehouse release and make decisions across the project. To see the full OpenStack Summit schedule, including presentations, panels and workshops, go to http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org.
Let's talk about how Ironic can manage local ephemeral, local persistent, and network-attached storage in a general way, and then make a plan to implement it!
Some things to consider: * TripleO requires local volumes that persist across re-imaging of the machine, eg. "nova rebuild"; * Users may require secure-erase of all local volumes on instance deletion; * Flavor "root_gb" may be much less than actual storage; use of the additional space should be enabled via Cinder and Ironic APIs; * Users may request different RAID topology be applied to the same node; * Some hardware can mount a network volume and present it as a local disk;
