@@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ to cloud administrators or cloud operators only.</para>
713713<!ENTITY inst-terminate
714714' <para>For maintenance reasons, you can pause or suspend images—provided
715715 they are running on &kvm; or &xen;. Pausing or suspending avoids the consequences
716- that come with terminating an instance.</para>
716+ that come with terminating an instance. Instances running on &vmware; or
717+ &hyper; can only be suspended, but not paused.</para>
717718 <para>If you pause an instance, the content of the virtual machine is stored
718719 to memory (RAM) and the image is kept running in a <quote>frozen</quote>
719720 state. When suspending an instance, the content of the virtual
@@ -1202,3 +1203,50 @@ addresses.</para>'>
12021203 -v "<replaceable>URL</replaceable>" \
12031204 /etc/crowbar/provisioner.json</screen>
12041205 </note>'>
1206+
1207+ <!ENTITY migration
1208+ ' <para>The term <literal>migration</literal> in &ostack; refers to the
1209+ process of moving a virtual machine instance from one &compnode; to
1210+ another. &ostack; discriminates between two types of migration:</para>
1211+ <variablelist>
1212+ <varlistentry>
1213+ <term>Offline (Non-live) Migration</term>
1214+ <listitem>
1215+ <para>
1216+ <remark>taroth 2013-09-09: DEVs, is the following correct?</remark>
1217+ The instance will be shut down in order to be moved to another
1218+ &compnode;, leading to instance downtime and all consequences of
1219+ shutting down an instance. The destination of the instance cannot be
1220+ defined by the cloud administrator, instead it is picked by the nova
1221+ scheduler.
1222+ </para>
1223+ </listitem>
1224+ </varlistentry>
1225+ <varlistentry>
1226+ <term>Live Migration</term>
1227+ <listitem>
1228+ <para>
1229+ <remark>taroth 2013-09-09: DEVs, is the following correct?</remark>
1230+ During the move to another &compnode; there is only very little
1231+ downtime of the virtual machine instance. However, if the default
1232+ configuration options in &ostack; ∁ are used, the instance
1233+ will be suspended before migration. When executing a live migration, the
1234+ cloud administrator has to select to which &compnode; to move the
1235+ instance.</para>
1236+ <para>For live migrations, we need to discriminate between the following
1237+ scenarios</para>
1238+ <itemizedlist>
1239+ <listitem>
1240+ <para>Live migration on shared storage. In this case, both &compnode;s have access
1241+ to a shared storage. </para>
1242+ </listitem>
1243+ <listitem>
1244+ <para>Live migration without shared storage (block migration). In this
1245+ case, no shared storage is required.</para>
1246+ </listitem>
1247+ </itemizedlist>
1248+ </para>
1249+ </listitem>
1250+ </varlistentry>
1251+ </variablelist>'>
1252+
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