diff --git a/docs/en-US/Book_Info_Release_Notes_4.0.xml b/docs/en-US/Book_Info_Release_Notes_4.0.xml index 93970142bb6..411eba9e6d3 100644 --- a/docs/en-US/Book_Info_Release_Notes_4.0.xml +++ b/docs/en-US/Book_Info_Release_Notes_4.0.xml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ --> Version 4.0 Release Notes - Revised October 9, 2012 3:35 am Pacific + Revised October 17, 2012 19:49 UTC Apache CloudStack diff --git a/docs/en-US/deployment-architecture-overview.xml b/docs/en-US/deployment-architecture-overview.xml index 6a67a2ce589..2c5f30ec06b 100644 --- a/docs/en-US/deployment-architecture-overview.xml +++ b/docs/en-US/deployment-architecture-overview.xml @@ -25,10 +25,19 @@
Deployment Architecture Overview - A &PRODUCT; installation consists of two parts: the Management Server and the cloud infrastructure that it manages. When you set up and manage a &PRODUCT; cloud, you provision resources such as hosts, storage devices, and IP addresses into the Management Server, and the Management Server manages those resources. + A &PRODUCT; installation consists of two parts: the Management Server + and the cloud infrastructure that it manages. When you set up and + manage a &PRODUCT; cloud, you provision resources such as hosts, + storage devices, and IP addresses into the Management Server, and + the Management Server manages those resources. - The minimum production installation consists of one machine running the &PRODUCT; Management Server and another machine to act as the cloud infrastructure (in this case, a very simple infrastructure consisting of one host running hypervisor software). In a trial installation, a single machine can act as both the Management Server and the hypervisor host (using the KVM hypervisor). + The minimum production installation consists of one machine running + the &PRODUCT; Management Server and another machine to act as the + cloud infrastructure (in this case, a very simple infrastructure + consisting of one host running hypervisor software). In its smallest + deployment, a single machine can act as both the Management Server + and the hypervisor host (using the KVM hypervisor). @@ -36,7 +45,11 @@ basic-deployment.png: Basic two-machine deployment - A more full-featured installation consists of a highly-available multi-node Management Server installation and up to thousands of hosts using any of several advanced networking setups. For information about deployment options, see Choosing a Deployment Architecture. + + A more full-featured installation consists of a highly-available + multi-node Management Server installation and up to tens of thousands of + hosts using any of several advanced networking setups. For + information about deployment options, see Choosing a Deployment Architecture. diff --git a/docs/en-US/feature-overview.xml b/docs/en-US/feature-overview.xml index 236d78b026b..a4178399b10 100644 --- a/docs/en-US/feature-overview.xml +++ b/docs/en-US/feature-overview.xml @@ -55,14 +55,31 @@ API and Extensibility - &PRODUCT; provides an API that gives programmatic access to all the management features available in the UI. The API is maintained and documented. This API enables the creation of command line tools and new user interfaces to suit particular needs. See the Developer’s Guide and API Reference, both available at http://docs.cloudstack.org/Apache_CloudStack_Documentation. + &PRODUCT; provides an API that gives programmatic access to all the + management features available in the UI. The API is maintained and + documented. This API enables the creation of command line tools and + new user interfaces to suit particular needs. See the Developer’s + Guide and API Reference, both available at + Apache CloudStack Guides + and + Apache CloudStack API Reference + respectively. - The &PRODUCT; pluggable allocation architecture allows the creation of new types of allocators for the selection of storage and Hosts. See the Allocator Implementation Guide (http://docs.cloudstack.org/CloudStack_Documentation/Allocator_Implementation_Guide). + The &PRODUCT; pluggable allocation architecture allows the creation + of new types of allocators for the selection of storage and Hosts. + See the Allocator Implementation Guide + (http://docs.cloudstack.org/CloudStack_Documentation/Allocator_Implementation_Guide). High Availability - &PRODUCT; has a number of features to increase the availability of the system. The Management Server itself may be deployed in a multi-node installation where the servers are load balanced. MySQL may be configured to use replication to provide for a manual failover in the event of database loss. For the hosts, &PRODUCT; supports NIC bonding and the use of separate networks for storage as well as iSCSI Multipath. + + &PRODUCT; has a number of features to increase the availability of the + system. The Management Server itself may be deployed in a multi-node + installation where the servers are load balanced. MySQL may be configured + to use replication to provide for a manual failover in the event of + database loss. For the hosts, &PRODUCT; supports NIC bonding and the use + of separate networks for storage as well as iSCSI Multipath.