From f1f9b000b02f760bdd44cd0b38f78c894b4fe8aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcin Wilk Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:17:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Adding LPAR Detailed Settings section. Change-Id: I127cfaacfb7f567e650ae5d62861ae28085c7fa4 --- doc/source/devref/usage.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/devref/usage.rst b/doc/source/devref/usage.rst index da03781f..ec3ac4da 100644 --- a/doc/source/devref/usage.rst +++ b/doc/source/devref/usage.rst @@ -185,6 +185,23 @@ Config Drive Options | | should be built. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+ +LPAR Detailed Settings +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Fine grained control over LPAR settings can be achieved by setting PowerVM +specific properties (``extra-specs``) on the flavors being used to instantiate a VM. For the +complete list of PowerVM properties see `IBM PowerVC documentation`_. + +.. _`IBM PowerVC documentation`: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSXK2N_1.4.2/com.ibm.powervc.standard.help.doc/powervc_pg_flavorsextraspecs_hmc.html + +For example, to create a VM with one VCPU and 0.7 entitlement (0.7 of the physical +CPU resource), a user could use a flavor created as follows:: + + openstack flavor create --vcpus 1 --ram 6144 --property \ + powervm:proc_units=0.7 pvm-6-1-0.7 + +In the example above ``powervm:proc_units`` property was used to specify CPU +entitlement for the VM. + Remarks For IBM i Users ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By default all VMs are created as ``AIX/Linux`` type LPARs. In order to create