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authorSharat Sharma <s.sharatsharma@gmail.com>2019-06-06 06:31:27 -0400
committerStephen Finucane <sfinucan@redhat.com>2019-11-13 17:11:27 +0000
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"SUSPENDED" description changed in server_concepts guide and API REF
The description of "SUSPENDED" server status was misguiding. Rewording it to make it more accurate. Change-Id: Ie93b3b38c2000f7e9caa3ca89dea4ec04ed15067 Closes-Bug: #1815403
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@@ -139,13 +139,13 @@ body. The possible server status values are:
- ``SOFT_DELETED``. The server is marked as deleted but the disk
images are still available to restore.
- ``SUSPENDED``. The server is suspended, either by request or
- necessity. This status appears for only the XenServer/XCP, KVM, and
- ESXi hypervisors. Administrative users can suspend an instance if it
- is infrequently used or to perform system maintenance. When you
- suspend an instance, its VM state is stored on disk, all memory is
- written to disk, and the virtual machine is stopped. Suspending an
- instance is similar to placing a device in hibernation; memory and
- vCPUs become available to create other instances.
+ necessity. This status appears for only the following hypervisors:
+ XenServer/XCP, KVM, and ESXi. When you suspend a server, its state is stored
+ on disk, all memory is written to disk, and the server is stopped.
+ Suspending a server is similar to placing a device in hibernation and its
+ occupied resource will not be freed but rather kept for when the server is
+ resumed. If a server is infrequently used and the occupied resource needs
+ to be freed to create other servers, it should be shelved.
- ``UNKNOWN``. The state of the server is unknown. Contact your cloud
provider.
- ``VERIFY_RESIZE``. System is awaiting confirmation that the server