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adding entity for migration basics
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taroth21 committed Sep 9, 2013
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<!ENTITY inst-terminate
' <para>For maintenance reasons, you can pause or suspend images&mdash;provided
they are running on &kvm; or &xen;. Pausing or suspending avoids the consequences
that come with terminating an instance.</para>
that come with terminating an instance. Instances running on &vmware; or
&hyper; can only be suspended, but not paused.</para>
<para>If you pause an instance, the content of the virtual machine is stored
to memory (RAM) and the image is kept running in a <quote>frozen</quote>
state. When suspending an instance, the content of the virtual
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-v "<replaceable>URL</replaceable>" \
/etc/crowbar/provisioner.json</screen>
</note>'>

<!ENTITY migration
' <para>The term <literal>migration</literal> in &ostack; refers to the
process of moving a virtual machine instance from one &compnode; to
another. &ostack; discriminates between two types of migration:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Offline (Non-live) Migration</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<remark>taroth 2013-09-09: DEVs, is the following correct?</remark>
The instance will be shut down in order to be moved to another
&compnode;, leading to instance downtime and all consequences of
shutting down an instance. The destination of the instance cannot be
defined by the cloud administrator, instead it is picked by the nova
scheduler.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Live Migration</term>
<listitem>
<para>
<remark>taroth 2013-09-09: DEVs, is the following correct?</remark>
During the move to another &compnode; there is only very little
downtime of the virtual machine instance. However, if the default
configuration options in &ostack; &comp; are used, the instance
will be suspended before migration. When executing a live migration, the
cloud administrator has to select to which &compnode; to move the
instance.</para>
<para>For live migrations, we need to discriminate between the following
scenarios</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Live migration on shared storage. In this case, both &compnode;s have access
to a shared storage. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Live migration without shared storage (block migration). In this
case, no shared storage is required.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>'>

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