Bug 1428490 – Min/max memory values for RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 are incorrect

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Bug 1428490 - Min/max memory values for RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 are incorrect

Summary:	Min/max memory values for RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 are incorrect

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	ovirt-engine (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0.6
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity low
Target Milestone:	ovirt-4.2.0
Target Release:	4.2.0
Assigned To:	Michal Skrivanek
QA Contact:	Israel Pinto
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Reported:	2017-03-02 11:50 EST by Jake Hunsaker
Modified:	2018-05-15 13:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
oVirt gerrit	80894	master	MERGED	osinfo: update memory requirements for RHEL	2017-08-22 07:05 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHEA-2018:1488	None	None	None	2018-05-15 13:42 EDT

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Description Jake Hunsaker 2017-03-02 11:50:58 EST

Description of problem:

Right now minimum memory values for RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 are incorrect at 256MB, whereas it should be 1GB. Similarly, the maximum RHEL 7 memory value is at 3TB when it should be 4TB. 

References:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits
https://access.redhat.com/articles/906543


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhevm-4.0.6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Warning is created when a VM with 4TB of memory is specified. 

Expected results:
No warning for RHEL 7 VMs with 4TB of memory should be given. Alerts for RHEL 6/7 VMs with less than 1GB should be given.

Additional info:

Comment 3 rhev-integ 2017-11-02 09:39:15 EDT

INFO: Bug status wasn't changed from MODIFIED to ON_QA due to the following reason:

[No relevant external trackers attached]

For more info please contact: rhv-devops@redhat.com

Comment 4 Israel Pinto 2017-11-05 07:44:56 EST

Verify with:

Step:
Create VM with RHEL6/RHEL7 Os with 100MB memory, and check the event log.
Results:
VM test was configured with 100MiB of memory while the recommended value range is 1024MiB - 4194304MiB

PASS

Comment 5 Israel Pinto 2017-11-05 07:46:40 EST

verify with: Software version:4.2.0-0.0.master.20171103160151.gitcf446d9.el7.centos

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-15 13:40:52 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:1488

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