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What is the nature and description of the request? >> Customer would like to add IPMI / SOL support to KVM guests. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here) >> ability to manage and monitor all RHEL servers the same way regardless of >> platform. My initial interest was power management for RHCS fencing and >> SOL for remote console access. However, having all/most of IPMI supported >> would allow much more flexibility in management and monitoring. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here) >> IPMI and SOL support at the KVM guest level to match that already >> available with physical hosts. >> Monitor / Management (IPMI) >> Remote Console (SOL) >> Remote power management. For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented. >> All features can be tested using system management technology that >> leverages IPMI and SOL technologies. Customer currently uses management >> tools from BMC. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla? >> Not to my knowledge How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release) >> Customer would like to take advantage of this functionality as soon as >> possible as Cloud and Virtualization become mainstream within their >> environment. Preferred release vehicle would be a dot release in RHEL 6 >> (6.2 if possible). Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review) >> Yes List the affected packages >> Not certain in this case, may be kernel drivers or aspects of libvirt or >> a combination of them both.
(In reply to comment #0) > What is the nature and description of the request? > >> Customer would like to add IPMI / SOL support to KVM guests. > > Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here) > >> ability to manage and monitor all RHEL servers the same way regardless of > >> platform. My initial interest was power management for RHCS fencing and We do have a mechanism for watchdog devices i6300esb/ib700 > >> SOL for remote console access. However, having all/most of IPMI supported > >> would allow much more flexibility in management and monitoring. Remote console can be setup using some mgmt daemon on the host getting the input/output from the virtual serial line Would that be acceptable? > > How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements > here) > >> IPMI and SOL support at the KVM guest level to match that already > >> available with physical hosts. > >> Monitor / Management (IPMI) > >> Remote Console (SOL) > >> Remote power management. > > For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat > and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully > implemented. > >> All features can be tested using system management technology that > >> leverages IPMI and SOL technologies. Customer currently uses management > >> tools from BMC. > > Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla? > >> Not to my knowledge > > How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release) > >> Customer would like to take advantage of this functionality as soon as > >> possible as Cloud and Virtualization become mainstream within their > >> environment. Preferred release vehicle would be a dot release in RHEL 6 > >> (6.2 if possible). > > Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review) > >> Yes > > List the affected packages > >> Not certain in this case, may be kernel drivers or aspects of libvirt or > >> a combination of them both.