shwstppr commented on a change in pull request #53: Constrained custom
offerings update for 4.13
URL:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/53#discussion_r304263336
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File path: source/adminguide/service_offerings.rst
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@@ -169,65 +163,75 @@ To create a new compute offering:
system VM is running. Shared allocates from storage accessible via
NFS.
- - **Custom**: Custom compute offerings can be used in following
- cases: deploying a VM, changing the compute offering of a stopped
- VM and running VMs, which is nothing but scaling up.
+ - **Provisioning type**: The type of disk that should be allocated.
+ Local
- If the Custom field is checked, the end-user must fill in the
- desired values for number of CPU, CPU speed, and RAM Memory when
- using a custom compute offering. When you check this box, those
- three input fields are hidden in the dialog box.
+
+ - **Compute Offering Type**: The amount of freedom that the end user
+ has to customise the compute power that their instance has when using
this
+ compute offering. The options are; Fixed offering - user has no
+ ability to customise, Custom constrained - user has some latitude
+ to customise the compute within parameters set by the offering,
+ Custom unconstrained - user can set any values that they wish.
+ 'Custom constrained' is recommended over 'Custom unconstrained'
+
- **# of CPU cores**: The number of cores which should be allocated
- to a system VM with this offering. If Custom is checked, this
- field does not appear.
+ to a system VM with this offering. If 'Custom unconstrained' is checked,
this
+ field does not appear. If 'Custom constrained' is checked, the admin will
+ be asked to enter the minimum and maximum number of CPUs that a user
+ can request.
- - **CPU (in MHz)**: The CPU speed of the cores that the system VM is
+ - **CPU (in MHz)**: The CPU speed of the cores that the guest instance is
allocated. For example, “2000” would provide for a 2 GHz clock. If
- Custom is checked, this field does not appear.
+ Custom is checked, this field does not appear (only enforced if CPU
Review comment:
`If 'Custom constrained' or 'Custom unconstrained'` will be better to avoid
confusion,
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