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Added vmware disk provisioning types (apache#187)
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source/adminguide/service_offerings.rst

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system VM is running. Shared allocates from storage accessible via
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- **Provisioning type**: The type of disk that should be allocated.
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Local
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- **Provisioning type**: The type of disk that should be allocated.
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Valid values are thin, sparse, fat. When using the VMWare hypervisor,
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these values are mapped to the following vSphere disk provisioning types:
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- **thin**: **Thin Provision**
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- **sparse**: **Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed**
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- **fat**: **Thick Provision Eager Zeroed**
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The disk provisioning type strictness on VMWare is controlled with the zone level setting - **disk.provisioning.type.strictness**. If set to true, the disk is created only when there is a suitable storage pool that supports the disk provisioning type specified by the service/disk offering. If set to false, the disk is created with a disk provisioning type supported by the pool. Default value is false and this is currently supported for VMware only.
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- **Compute Offering Type**: The amount of freedom that the end user
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has to customise the compute power that their instance has when using this
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- **Disk Size**: Appears only if Custom Disk Size is not selected.
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Define the volume size in GB (2^30 1GB = 1,073,741,824 Bytes).
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- **Provisioning type**: The type of disk that should be allocated.
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Valid values are thin, sparse, fat. When using the VMWare hypervisor,
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these values are mapped to the following vSphere disk provisioning types:
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- **thin**: **Thin Provision**
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- **sparse**: **Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed**
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- **fat**: **Thick Provision Eager Zeroed**
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The disk provisioning type strictness on VMWare is controlled with the zone level setting - **disk.provisioning.type.strictness**. If set to true, the disk is created only when there is a suitable storage pool that supports the disk provisioning type specified by the service/disk offering. If set to false, the disk is created with a disk provisioning type supported by the pool. Default value is false and this is currently supported for VMware only.
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- **QoS Type** [2]_: Three options: Empty (no Quality of Service), hypervisor
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(rate limiting enforced on the hypervisor side), and storage
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(guaranteed minimum and maximum IOPS enforced on the storage
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#. Destroy the existing CPVM or SSVM offerings and wait for them to be
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recreated. The new CPVM or SSVM are configured with the new offering.
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