diff --git a/doc/source/install/advanced_deployment/instance_ha.rst b/doc/source/install/advanced_deployment/instance_ha.rst index feca2410..709ad746 100644 --- a/doc/source/install/advanced_deployment/instance_ha.rst +++ b/doc/source/install/advanced_deployment/instance_ha.rst @@ -64,8 +64,18 @@ the following steps are needed: lanplus: 1 -Once the deployment is completed, the overcloud should show a stonith device for each compute node and one for each controller node and a GuestNode for every compute node. The expected behaviour is that if a compute node dies, it will be fenced and the VMs that were running on it will be evacuated (i.e. restarted) on another compute node. +Once the deployment is completed, the overcloud should show a stonith device for each compute node and one for each controller node and a GuestNode for every compute node. The expected behavior is that if a compute node dies, it will be fenced and the VMs that were running on it will be evacuated (i.e. restarted) on another compute node. -In case it is necessary to limit which VMs are to be resuscitated on another compute node, it is possible to either tag the image, the flavor or the VM with the ``evacuable`` tag. For example:: +In case it is necessary to limit which VMs are to be resuscitated on another compute node it is possible to tag with ``evacuable`` either the image:: - openstack image set --tag evacuable 0c305437-89eb-48bc-9997-e4e4ea77e449 + openstack image set --tag evacuable 0c305437-89eb-48bc-9997-e4e4ea77e449 + +the flavor:: + + nova flavor-key bb31d84a-72b3-4425-90f7-25fea81e012f set evacuable=true + +or the VM:: + + nova server-tag-add 89b70b07-8199-46f4-9b2d-849e5cdda3c2 evacuable + +At the moment this last method should be avoided because of a significant reason: setting the tag on a single VM means that just *that* instance will be evacuated, tagging no VM implies that *all* the servers on the compute node will resuscitate. In a partial tagging situation, if a compute node runs only untagged VMs, the cluster will evacuate all of them, ignoring the overall tag status.