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adding entity for migration basics
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<!ENTITY inst-terminate
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' <para>For maintenance reasons, you can pause or suspend images&mdash;provided
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they are running on &kvm; or &xen;. Pausing or suspending avoids the consequences
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that come with terminating an instance.</para>
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that come with terminating an instance. Instances running on &vmware; or
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&hyper; can only be suspended, but not paused.</para>
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<para>If you pause an instance, the content of the virtual machine is stored
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to memory (RAM) and the image is kept running in a <quote>frozen</quote>
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state. When suspending an instance, the content of the virtual
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-v "<replaceable>URL</replaceable>" \
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/etc/crowbar/provisioner.json</screen>
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</note>'>
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<!ENTITY migration
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' <para>The term <literal>migration</literal> in &ostack; refers to the
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process of moving a virtual machine instance from one &compnode; to
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another. &ostack; discriminates between two types of migration:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Offline (Non-live) Migration</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<remark>taroth 2013-09-09: DEVs, is the following correct?</remark>
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The instance will be shut down in order to be moved to another
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&compnode;, leading to instance downtime and all consequences of
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shutting down an instance. The destination of the instance cannot be
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defined by the cloud administrator, instead it is picked by the nova
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scheduler.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Live Migration</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<remark>taroth 2013-09-09: DEVs, is the following correct?</remark>
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During the move to another &compnode; there is only very little
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downtime of the virtual machine instance. However, if the default
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configuration options in &ostack; &comp; are used, the instance
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will be suspended before migration. When executing a live migration, the
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cloud administrator has to select to which &compnode; to move the
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instance.</para>
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<para>For live migrations, we need to discriminate between the following
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scenarios</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Live migration on shared storage. In this case, both &compnode;s have access
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to a shared storage. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Live migration without shared storage (block migration). In this
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case, no shared storage is required.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>'>
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