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Commit 2a50e2e8 authored by Guido Trotter's avatar Guido Trotter
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walkthrough.rst: updates for maxmem/minmem


- Fix two example outputs
- Improve N+1 resolution section specifying how different memories
  affect N+1 calculation depending on the node

Signed-off-by: default avatarGuido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
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...@@ -478,7 +478,8 @@ redundancy:: ...@@ -478,7 +478,8 @@ redundancy::
- initrd_path: default () - initrd_path: default ()
Hardware: Hardware:
- VCPUs: 1 - VCPUs: 1
- memory: 128MiB - maxmem: 256MiB
- minmem: 512MiB
- NICs: - NICs:
- nic/0: MAC: aa:00:00:78:da:63, IP: None, mode: bridged, link: xen-br0 - nic/0: MAC: aa:00:00:78:da:63, IP: None, mode: bridged, link: xen-br0
Disks: Disks:
...@@ -857,7 +858,8 @@ with 12GB of RAM (numbers chosen so that we run out of memory):: ...@@ -857,7 +858,8 @@ with 12GB of RAM (numbers chosen so that we run out of memory)::
node1# gnt-instance modify -B memory=4G instance1 node1# gnt-instance modify -B memory=4G instance1
Modified instance instance1 Modified instance instance1
- be/memory -> 4096 - be/maxmem -> 4096
- be/minmem -> 4096
Please don't forget that these parameters take effect only at the next start of the instance. Please don't forget that these parameters take effect only at the next start of the instance.
node1# gnt-instance modify … node1# gnt-instance modify …
...@@ -915,8 +917,15 @@ solve this, you have a number of options: ...@@ -915,8 +917,15 @@ solve this, you have a number of options:
- try to manually move instances around (but this can become complicated - try to manually move instances around (but this can become complicated
for any non-trivial cluster) for any non-trivial cluster)
- try to reduce memory of some instances to accommodate the available - try to reduce the minimum memory of some instances on the source node
node memory of the N+1 failure (in the example above ``node1``): this will allow
it to start and be failed over/migrated with less than its maximum
memory
- try to reduce the runtime/maximum memory of some instances on the
destination node of the N+1 failure (in the example above ``node2``)
to create additional available node memory (check the :doc:`admin`
guide for what Ganeti will and won't automatically do in regards to
instance runtime memory modification)
- if Ganeti has been built with the htools package enabled, you can run - if Ganeti has been built with the htools package enabled, you can run
the ``hbal`` tool which will try to compute an automated cluster the ``hbal`` tool which will try to compute an automated cluster
solution that complies with the N+1 rule solution that complies with the N+1 rule
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