From edc282ad741e9aebf9f9642596f47e2a5fc43d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Agata Murawska <agatamurawska@google.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:59:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] admin.rst update regarding offline state of the instance
Signed-off-by: Agata Murawska <agatamurawska@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
---
doc/admin.rst | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/admin.rst b/doc/admin.rst
index 22e1371ee..92c2362cf 100644
--- a/doc/admin.rst
+++ b/doc/admin.rst
@@ -287,10 +287,22 @@ manually start one which is currently stopped you can run::
gnt-instance startup INSTANCE_NAME
-While the command to stop one is::
+Note, that this will not work when an instance is in a permanently
+stopped state ``offline``. In this case, you will first have to
+put it back to online mode by running::
+
+ gnt-instance modify --online INSTANCE_NAME
+
+The command to stop the running instance is::
gnt-instance shutdown INSTANCE_NAME
+If you want to shut the instance down more permanently, so that it
+does not require dynamically allocated resources (memory and vcpus),
+after shutting down an instance, execute the following::
+
+ gnt-instance modify --ofline INSTANCE_NAME
+
.. warning:: Do not use the Xen or KVM commands directly to stop
instances. If you run for example ``xm shutdown`` or ``xm destroy``
on an instance Ganeti will automatically restart it (via
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