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Commit 53b78ba4 authored by Guido Trotter's avatar Guido Trotter
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Add disk template information to the admin manual

Add warning about avoiding xm commands for instance creation
Also fix a man page reference in installing.sgml to use the docbook format

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......@@ -130,8 +130,43 @@ gnt-instance add -n TARGET_NODE -o OS_TYPE -t DISK_TEMPLATE INSTANCE_NAME
want to use the default one</simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
If you want to create an highly available instance use the remote_raid1
disk template:
</para>
<para>There are four types of disk template you can choose from:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>diskless</term>
<listitem><para>The instance has no disks. Only used for special
purpouse operating systems or for testing.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>plain</term>
<listitem><para>The instance will use LVM devices as backend for its
disks. No redundancy is provided.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>local_raid1</term>
<listitem><para>A local mirror is set between LVM devices to back the
instance. This provides some redundancy for the instance's
data.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>remote_raid1</term>
<listitem><para>A mirror is set between the local node and a remote
one, which must be specified with the --secondary-node option. Use
this option to obtain a highly available instance that can be failed
over to a remote node should the primary one fail.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
For example if you want to create an highly available instance use the
remote_raid1 disk template:
<programlisting>
gnt-instance add -n TARGET_NODE -o OS_TYPE -t remote_raid1 \
--secondary-node=SECONDARY_NODE INSTANCE_NAME
......@@ -169,6 +204,14 @@ gnt-instance shutdown INSTANCE_NAME
gnt-instance list
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>Do not use the xen commands to stop instances. If you run for
example xm shutdown or xm destroy on an instance Ganeti will
automatically restart it (via the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ganeti-watcher</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
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......@@ -195,8 +195,9 @@ vgcreate xenvg /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc1
</para>
<para>
If you want to add a device later you can do so with the vgextend(8)
command.
If you want to add a device later you can do so with the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>vgextend</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> command.
<programlisting>
pvcreate /dev/sdd
vgextend xenvg /dev/sdd
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