That facility exists already, although the only supported baremetal appliance is the Juniper SRX.
On 3/25/13 1:59 PM, "Outback Dingo" <outbackdi...@gmail.com> wrote: >it would be even nicer if the "virtual router" could be bare metal so as >not to use resources required on the hosts >Id much prefer to run Vyatta, or other FreeBSD pf box as the virtual >router, and just have cloudstack comunicate to it >however its probably outside the scope of this document, Im also not sure >if its feasible to have an external "virtual router" >though i know there Nicera, and other network based plugins, someone >should >create a VR for baremetal based on the >CS image... isnt it FreeBSD anyway ?? > > >On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:44 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? >>
