docs/en-US/creating-compute-offerings.xml

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<section id="creating-compute-offerings">
    <title>Creating a New Compute Offering</title>
    <para>To create a new compute offering:</para>
    <orderedlist>
        <listitem><para>Log in with admin privileges to the &PRODUCT; UI.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>In the left navigation bar, click Service Offerings.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>In Select Offering, choose Compute Offering.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Click Add Compute Offering.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>In the dialog, make the following choices:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Name</emphasis>: Any desired name for the service offering.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Description</emphasis>: A short description of the offering that can be
                        displayed to users</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Storage type</emphasis>: The type of disk that should be allocated.
                        Local allocates from storage attached directly to the host where the system
                        VM is running. Shared allocates from storage accessible via NFS.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold"># of CPU cores</emphasis>: The number of cores which should be allocated
                        to a system VM with this offering</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">CPU (in MHz)</emphasis>: The CPU speed of the cores that the system VM
                        is allocated. For example, “2000” would provide for a 2 GHz clock.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Memory (in MB)</emphasis>: The amount of memory in megabytes that the
                        system VM should be allocated. For example, “2048” would provide for a 2 GB
                        RAM allocation.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Network Rate</emphasis>: Allowed data transfer rate in MB per
                        second.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Offer HA</emphasis>: If yes, the administrator can choose to have the
                        system VM be monitored and as highly available as possible.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Storage Tags</emphasis>: The tags that should be associated with the
                        primary storage used by the system VM.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Host Tags</emphasis>: (Optional) Any tags that you use to organize your
                        hosts</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">CPU cap</emphasis>: Whether to limit the level of CPU usage even if
                        spare capacity is available.</para></listitem>
            <listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Public</emphasis>: Indicate whether the service offering should be
                        available all domains or only some domains. Choose Yes to make it available
                        to all domains. Choose No to limit the scope to a subdomain; &PRODUCT;
                        will then prompt for the subdomain's name.</para></listitem>
        </itemizedlist></listitem> 
        <listitem><para>Click Add.</para></listitem>        
    </orderedlist>                
    
    
</section>