From 3badb674f6604d3beca4ba557939d4fbc07f6178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sharat Sharma Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 06:31:27 -0400 Subject: "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 --- api-guide/source/server_concepts.rst | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'api-guide') diff --git a/api-guide/source/server_concepts.rst b/api-guide/source/server_concepts.rst index 637e8a15db..4885a96a81 100644 --- a/api-guide/source/server_concepts.rst +++ b/api-guide/source/server_concepts.rst @@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ server status is one of the following values: - ``SUSPENDED``: The server is suspended, either by request or necessity. This status appears for only the following hypervisors: - XenServer/XCP, KVM, and ESXi. Administrative users may suspend a - server if it is infrequently used or to perform system maintenance. - 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; - memory and vCPUs become available to create other servers. + 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 an instance 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. It could be because a part of the infrastructure is temporarily down (see :doc:`down_cells` -- cgit v1.2.1