In the last month or so, OOOQ has introduced VirtualBMC, so virt deployments using quickstart will not actually use fence_ironic, but since this is (afaik) not the case with the core tripleo deployment tooling, fence_ironic support is probably desirable for dev/test situations.
There's also one tiny patch to allow fence_ipmilan to be called with nonstandard UDP ports so it can talk to VirtualBMC:
For virtual deployments, I've worked up some patches to add support for fence_ironic, to avoid complex networking changes for fence_xvm:
https:/ /review. openstack. org/#/c/ 390397 /review. openstack. org/#/c/ 390396
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In the last month or so, OOOQ has introduced VirtualBMC, so virt deployments using quickstart will not actually use fence_ironic, but since this is (afaik) not the case with the core tripleo deployment tooling, fence_ironic support is probably desirable for dev/test situations.
There's also one tiny patch to allow fence_ipmilan to be called with nonstandard UDP ports so it can talk to VirtualBMC:
https:/ /review. openstack. org/#/c/ 420917
Feel free to ping me on IRC (Ng) if you want to discuss anything :)