Bug 1403814 - [Docs][Admin] Improve and complete memory based scheduling policy docs
Summary: [Docs][Admin] Improve and complete memory based scheduling policy docs
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Documentation
Version: 4.0.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
Target Milestone: ovirt-3.6.11
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Assignee: Megan Lewis
QA Contact: Tahlia Richardson
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Blocks: 1427748 1440610
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Reported: 2016-12-12 12:24 UTC by Doron Fediuck
Modified: 2020-02-14 18:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-13 01:37:10 UTC
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Description Doron Fediuck 2016-12-12 12:24:14 UTC
Description of problem:
Current documentation as can be seen in Table 4.5. Scheduling Policy Tab Properties available in [1] is inaccurate and incomplete.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.6 and later.

Actual results:
MaxFreeMemoryForOverUtilized and MinFreeMemoryForUnderUtilized definitions are inaccurate, as the migration happens while the host memory is below or above the requested service level.
Additionally we should provide sample values for users to try it out.

Additional info:

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html/Administration_Guide/sect-Cluster_Tasks.html

Comment 2 Martin Sivák 2016-12-12 12:32:25 UTC
I think there are two mistakes there:

> MaxFreeMemoryForOverUtilized: Sets the maximum free memory required in MB
> for the minimum service level

The maximum here means that the overutilized condition is over when you have more than the defined amount of free memory. So s/maximum/minimum would probably fix this.

> migrates virtual machines to other hosts in the cluster until the host's
> available memory is below the minimum service threshold

s/until/while as each VM that is migrated away increases the available memory of the source host

> MinFreeMemoryForUnderUtilized: Sets the minimum free memory required in MB
> before the host is considered underutilized. If the host's memory usage runs 
> below this value,

s/memory usage runs below/available memory runs above/

The original is technically correct, but mixing memory usage with available memory can confuse the reader.

Comment 3 Lucy Bopf 2017-01-11 04:31:44 UTC
Changing component to Documentation.

Comment 4 Lucy Bopf 2017-01-11 04:34:00 UTC
Assigning to Megan for review.


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