--- upgrade: - | In this release the default values for the initial ram and cpu allocation ratios have been updated to 1.0 and 4.0 respectively. This will not affect any existing compute node resource providers but the new default will take effect on the creation of new resource providers. other: - | The default initial allocation ratios enabled ram over commit by default with a factor of ``1.5``. This value was chosen early in nova's history as the predominant workload was web hosting or other light weight virtualization. Similarly the default initial cpu allocation ratio defaulted to 16. As more demanding workload from telco, enterprise, scientific and governmental users became the norm the initial values we had chosen became less and less correct overtime. These have now been updated to reflect a more reasonable default for the majority of our users. As of this release the initial ram allocation value is 1.0 disabling overcommit by default for new compute nodes and the initial cpu allocation ratio is now 4.0 which is a more reasonable overcommit for non idle workloads.