From d0283632ed3e3a668e3ca3def235124538be7341 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francesco Santoro Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 13:19:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 6wind-virtual-accelerator-plugin/doc: description on license file upload To avoid running the 6wind virtual accelerator in evaluation mode, users should provide a license file. This patch details this optional (but recommended) step in documentation. Change-Id: I41957be832cede2b3456ea6c552b5f954ee76cb8 Signed-off-by: Francesco Santoro --- doc/source/installation.rst | 4 +++- doc/source/user-guide.rst | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/source/installation.rst b/doc/source/installation.rst index bb92ca0..9ec87f0 100644 --- a/doc/source/installation.rst +++ b/doc/source/installation.rst @@ -106,7 +106,9 @@ Configuring 6WIND virtual accelerator Plugin * Provide base64 credentials package you received from 6WIND support team - * Refer to next chapter for detailed field description and configuration + * Refer to next chapter for detailed field description and configuration. + In particular if you have a **license file** you should upload it at this time + in the Advanced Paramaters menu. #. Add nodes and assign them the following roles: diff --git a/doc/source/user-guide.rst b/doc/source/user-guide.rst index 66f368e..1f42706 100644 --- a/doc/source/user-guide.rst +++ b/doc/source/user-guide.rst @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ you can upload it to the nodes having the 6WIND Virtual Accelerator role enabled Note, this file will replace the default virtual accelerator configuration file and overload all the defined configuration paramaters. +It is **strongly recommended** to provide a license file if you have one. +Without license the plugin will still correclty install the +6WIND virtual accelerator but it will run in evaluation mode (48 hours). +At the end of the evaluation period you will experience significant performance +degradation and loss of connectivity for your instances since there will be +nomore any hugepages backing. + Use updated libvirt and qemu packages -------------------------------------