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+1 on the Admin User Guide - I had already planned to include this
information there.

Diane
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On 7/12/13 10:54 PM, "Tom Fifield" <tom at openstack.org> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've been having a nice little monologue over at:
>
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1090654
>
>which is a bug to document the introduction (into grizzly) of a feature
>called "Instance Resource Quotas", that allow you to set limits on how
>much cpu/disk/network particular instance types consume.
>
>As you can read, I had some initial confusion on where this would go. So
>here are my conclusions, provided so we can use it as an excercise in
>scoping with the current restructure efforts:
>
>The feature would _not_ be listed in:
>* Install guide: the install guide is for a basic description of
>installation, and this is not a necessary part
>
>* Config reference: the configuration reference is for parts of the
>system that need root access to systems be configured - really, things
>that need to be tweaked in {nova,neutron,...}.conf. This feature is
>always enabled, and set in user-space, using nova commands.
>
>
>The feature _may_ be listed in:
>* The Operations Guide: it may be a best practice to set instance
>resource limits when configuing flavors
>
>* The Secuity Guide: there are security implications of not setting
>these limits - where in certain situations guests could eg consume all
>the bandwidth, leading to a DoS attack
>
>
>This feature would predominantely live in:
>
>* The Admin User manual: since configuring flavours lives there, and
>this is a part of configuring flavours. A link to hypervisors section in
>config ref might be included, with a note on support of the feature
>across various hypervisors.
>
>* The `Comprehensive` Admin Manual: if/when this exists, it would
>contain an extensive discussion of the "extra_specs" metadata field,
>which is used to implement the Instance Resource Quotas
>
>
>Well that's my take - what's yours? If we can converge on this simple
>bug, we have achieved a minor success in scoping :)
>
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Tom
>
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