From 16fd13dee20df27d4db54a990caf724b7c625250 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darrin Husselmann Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:33:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added vmware disk provisioning types --- source/adminguide/service_offerings.rst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/adminguide/service_offerings.rst b/source/adminguide/service_offerings.rst index 391f8567e2..6201215dd3 100644 --- a/source/adminguide/service_offerings.rst +++ b/source/adminguide/service_offerings.rst @@ -187,8 +187,15 @@ To create a new compute offering: system VM is running. Shared allocates from storage accessible via NFS. - - **Provisioning type**: The type of disk that should be allocated. - Local + - **Provisioning type**: The type of disk that should be allocated. + Valid values are thin, sparse, fat. When using the VMWare hypervisor, + these values are mapped to the following vSphere disk provisioning types: + + - **thin**: **Thin Provision** + - **sparse**: **Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed** + - **fat**: **Thick Provision Eager Zeroed** + + The disk provisioning type strictness on VMWare is controlled with the zone level setting - **disk.provisioning.type.strictness**. If set to true, the disk is created only when there is a suitable storage pool that supports the disk provisioning type specified by the service/disk offering. If set to false, the disk is created with a disk provisioning type supported by the pool. Default value is false and this is currently supported for VMware only. - **Compute Offering Type**: The amount of freedom that the end user has to customise the compute power that their instance has when using this @@ -383,6 +390,16 @@ To create a new disk offering: - **Disk Size**: Appears only if Custom Disk Size is not selected. Define the volume size in GB (2^30 1GB = 1,073,741,824 Bytes). + - **Provisioning type**: The type of disk that should be allocated. + Valid values are thin, sparse, fat. When using the VMWare hypervisor, + these values are mapped to the following vSphere disk provisioning types: + + - **thin**: **Thin Provision** + - **sparse**: **Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed** + - **fat**: **Thick Provision Eager Zeroed** + + The disk provisioning type strictness on VMWare is controlled with the zone level setting - **disk.provisioning.type.strictness**. If set to true, the disk is created only when there is a suitable storage pool that supports the disk provisioning type specified by the service/disk offering. If set to false, the disk is created with a disk provisioning type supported by the pool. Default value is false and this is currently supported for VMware only. + - **QoS Type** [2]_: Three options: Empty (no Quality of Service), hypervisor (rate limiting enforced on the hypervisor side), and storage (guaranteed minimum and maximum IOPS enforced on the storage @@ -704,4 +721,3 @@ default system offering used for System VMs. #. Destroy the existing CPVM or SSVM offerings and wait for them to be recreated. The new CPVM or SSVM are configured with the new offering. -