diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/chvm.1.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/chvm.1.rst index dc8268623..71cbb7d55 100644 --- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/chvm.1.rst +++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/chvm.1.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ NAME **** -\ **chvm**\ - Changes HMC-, DFM-, IVM-, and zVM-managed partition profiles or virtual machines. For Power 775, chvm could be used to change the octant configuration values for generating LPARs; change the I/O slots assignment to LPARs within the same CEC. +\ **chvm**\ - Changes HMC-, DFM-, IVM-, KVM-, VMware-, and zVM-managed partition profiles or virtual machine attributes. For Power 775, chvm could be used to change the octant configuration values for generating LPARs; change the I/O slots assignment to LPARs within the same CEC. ******** @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ VMware/KVM specific: \ **-**\ **-mem**\ \ *memory*\ - Set the memory, defaults to MB. + Set the memory size for kvm/vmware virtual machines, default unit is MB. Specify in MB or append K for KB, M for MB, or G for GB. @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ zVM specific: \ **-**\ **-removeloaddev**\ \ *wwpn*\ \ *lun*\ - Removes the LOADDEV statement from a virtual machines's directory entry. + Removes the LOADDEV statement from a virtual machine's directory entry. @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ then run the command: cat /tmp/lparfile | chvm lpar4 --p775 -5. To change the I/O slot profile for lpar1-lpar8 using the configuration data in the file /tmp/lparfile. Users can use the output of lsvm.and remove the cec information, and modify the lpar id before each I/O, and run the command as following: +5. To change the I/O slot profile for lpar1-lpar8 using the configuration data in the file /tmp/lparfile. Users can use the output of lsvm, remove the cec information, modify the lpar id before each I/O, and run the command as following: .. code-block:: perl @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ VMware/KVM specific: .. code-block:: perl - chvm vm1 -a 8,16 --mem 512 --cpus 2 + chvm vm1 -a 8,16 --mem 4096 --cpus 2 Output is similar to: diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/lsvm.1.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/lsvm.1.rst index 12cd9662d..d1f93eabf 100644 --- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/lsvm.1.rst +++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/lsvm.1.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ NAME **** -\ **lsvm**\ - Lists partition profile information for HMC-, DFM-, IVM-, KVM-, VMware- and zVM-managed nodes. For Power 775, it lists the LPARs' I/O slots information and CEC configuration. +\ **lsvm**\ - Lists information about HMC-, DFM-, IVM-, KVM-, VMware-, and zVM-managed partitions or virtual machines. For Power 775, it lists the LPARs' I/O slots information and CEC configuration. ******** @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ DESCRIPTION *********** -The \ **lsvm**\ command lists all partition profiles defined for the partitions specified in \ *noderange*\ . If \ *noderange*\ is a CEC, all the partitions associated with that CEC are displayed. +The \ **lsvm**\ command lists all profiles defined for the partitions or virtual machines specified in \ *noderange*\ . If \ *noderange*\ is a CEC, all the partitions associated with that CEC are displayed. For PPC (using Direct FSP Management): ====================================== diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/mkvm.1.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/mkvm.1.rst index effaaa109..25cbab798 100644 --- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/mkvm.1.rst +++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/mkvm.1.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ NAME **** -\ **mkvm**\ - Creates HMC-, DFM-, IVM-, and zVM-managed partitions or other virtual machines. +\ **mkvm**\ - Creates HMC-, DFM-, IVM-, KVM-, VMware-, and zVM-managed partitions or virtual machines. ******** @@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ For PPC (using Direct FSP Management) specific: With option \ *full*\ , a partition using all the resources on a normal power machine will be created. -If no option is specified, a partition using the parameters specified with attributes such as 'vmcpus', 'vmmory', 'vmphyslots', 'vmothersetting', 'vmnics', 'vmstorage' will be created. Those attributes can either be specified with '\*def' commands running before or be specified with this command. +If no option is specified, a partition using the parameters specified with attributes such as 'vmcpus', 'vmmemory', 'vmphyslots', 'vmothersetting', 'vmnics', 'vmstorage' will be created. Those attributes can either be specified with '\*def' commands running before or be specified with this command. For KVM and VMware: =================== -The \ **mkvm**\ command creates new virtual machine(s) with the \ *disksize*\ size of hard disk, \ *memsize*\ size of memory and \ *cpucount*\ number of cpu. +The \ **mkvm**\ command creates a new virtual machine with \ *disksize*\ GB of storage space, \ *memsize*\ MB of memory, and \ *cpucount*\ cpu(s). For zVM: @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ OPTIONS \ **-**\ **-cpus**\ - The cpu count which will be created for the kvm/vmware virtual machine. + Number of CPUs for the kvm/vmware virtual machine being created. @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ OPTIONS \ **-**\ **-mem**\ - The memory size which will be used for the new created kvm/vmware virtual machine. Unit is Megabyte. + Set the memory size for kvm/vmware virtual machines, default unit is MB. Specify in MB or append K for KB, M for MB, or G for GB. @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ OPTIONS \ **-s|-**\ **-size**\ - The size of storage which will be created for the kvm/vmware virtual machine. + Set the storage size for kvm/vmware virtual machines, default unit is GB. Specify in GB or append K for KB, M for MB, G for GB. @@ -374,12 +374,36 @@ Output is similar to: gpok4: Starting LNX3... Done -7. To create a new kvm/vmware virtual machine with 10G storage, 2048M memory and 2 cpus. +7. To create a new kvm/vmware virtual machine with 20 GB of storage, 4096 MB of memory, and 2 cpus. .. code-block:: perl - mkvm vm1 -s 10G --mem 2048 --cpus 2 + mkvm vm1 -s 20 --mem 4096 --cpus 2 + + +or + + +.. code-block:: perl + + mkvm vm1 -s 20G --mem 4194304K --cpus 2 + + +or + + +.. code-block:: perl + + mkvm vm1 -s 20480M --mem 4096M --cpus 2 + + +or + + +.. code-block:: perl + + mkvm vm1 -s 20971520K --mem 4G --cpus 2 8. To create a full partition on normal power machine. @@ -454,7 +478,7 @@ After a node object is defined, the resources that will be used for the partitio chdef lpar1 vmcpus=1/4/16 vmmemory=1G/4G/32G vmphyslots=0x21010201,0x21010200 vmothersetting=bsr:128,hugepage:2 -Then, create the partion on the specified cec. +Then, create the partition on the specified cec. .. code-block:: perl @@ -470,7 +494,7 @@ Option 2: mkvm lpar1 vmcpus=1/4/16 vmmemory=1G/4G/32G vmphyslots=0x21010201,0x21010200 vmothersetting=bsr:128,hugepage:2 -The outout is similar to: +The output is similar to: .. code-block:: perl