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Nimble

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OpenStack Bare Metal Computing

Nimble aims to separate bare metal computing management from Nova, which is designed specifically for BMs, so we can provide a more lightweight and convenient platform with more advanced features by leveraging Ironic. Besides this, we also plan to support RSD(Rack Scale Design), so we can not only provide Pre-set Configuration Servers but also Custom Servers.

Nimble Mission Statement

To implement a service which focuses on the management of bare metal computing resources.

What is Nimble?

The figure below describes how Nimble interact with other OpenStack services to manage bare metal servers. nimble detailed workflow

Why Nimble?

Ironic only provides the capability to provision bare metal servers, which lacks scheduling ability and multitenancy support. Currently it is highly depends on Nova

Use Cases

1. NFV uses wants to orchestration and provisioning bare metal , with multi tenancy support. 2. An enterprise user would like to float a cloud sourcing hardware within a datacenter, nimble will orchestrate RSD hardware resource to meet this requirement. 3. An enterprise operator want to inventory all the physic assets, model the physic datacenter arch, mapping into a object model to help him manage physic assets, scheduling and optimize within datacenter.

RSD Integration

Rack Scale Design (RSD) implementations represent the next generation of Software Defined Infrastructure that can be dynamically provisioned across compute, network and storage resources.The fundamental premise for an RSA-based solution is the customers’ ability to “right-size” their endto-end infrastructure needs according to anticipated workload performance and capacity requirements, across pooled resources. Rack Scale Design VALENCE is a controller for Pooled and composable resources which adhere to DMTF[1] Redfish[2] with hardware management requests. That includes provisioning and management of RSD components and underlay features.

Projects

nimble

Source code https://github.com/openstack/nimble
Bug tracker https://bugs.launchpad.net/nimble
Feature tracker https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nimble

python-nimbleclient

Source code https://github.com/openstack/python-nimbleclient
Bug tracker https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-nimbleclient
Feature tracker https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-nimbleclient

People

Zhenguo Niu (zhenguo)

Rui Chen (RuiChen)

YunTong Jin (yuntong.jin@intel.com)

Shaohe Feng (shaohe_feng)

IRC

Discussion of the project also takes place in #openstack-nimble on irc.freenode.net. This is a great place to jump in and start your nimble adventure.

FAQ

What's the relationship with Nimble and Nova? What's the relationship with Nimble and Ironic? What's the relationship with Nimble and Valence?

References

[1] https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

[2] https://www.dmtf.org/