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Adds additional information about custom flavors and private flavors

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Anne Gentle 2014-05-21 10:46:34 -05:00
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<para>Here is an example with additional optional
parameters filled in that creates a public "extra
tiny" flavor that automatically gets an ID
assigned, with 256 MB memory, no disk space, and
one VCPU. The rxtx-factor indicates the slice of
bandwidth that the instances with this flavor can
use (through the Virtual Interface (vif) creation
in the hypervisor).</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova flavor-create --is-public true m1.extra_tiny auto 256 0 1 --rxtx-factor .1</userinput></screen>
<para>If an individual user or group of users needs a custom
flavor that you do not want other tenants to have access to,
you can change the flavor's access to make it a private flavor.
See <link
xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-ops/content/private-flavors.html">
Private Flavors in the OpenStack Operations Guide
</link>.</para>
<para>For a list of optional parameters, run this
command:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova help flavor-create</userinput></screen>