Hardware Node and Container Statuses

At any point of time, any Hardware Node and Container is characterized by a status (or state).

A Hardware Node may have two statuses only:

'online' meaning that the Node is up and running and
'offline' meaning that the Node is down.

A Container, in its turn, may have five stable statuses and a number of transitional statuses. If the Container is in one of the stable states, it means that it is likely to continue in this state until its administrator performs a task that would change its status. If the Container is in one of the transitional states, it means that it is currently passing from one stable state to another. During a transition stage, no operation can be performed on the Container until the transition is finished.

The stable statuses are:

Status	Description	Possible Actions
`down`	The Container is stopped and its private area is unmounted.	Starting/ repairing/ reinstalling
`mounted`	The Container private area is initialized and ready to work, but the Container is not running.	Starting
`running`	The Container private area is mounted and the Container is running.	Stopping/ restarting/ repairing
`suspended`	The Container is stopped and its private area is unmounted. The difference between the `suspended` status and the `down` status is that the current state of a suspended Container is written to the `/vz/` `private /` `CT _ID` `/dump/Dump` file on the Hardware Node, and can be quickly restored from there.	Resuming. Restarting, repairing and reinstalling are not recommended because these actions are most likely to alter the saved state of the Container.
`repairing`	The Container is mounted in the repair mode.	Exiting the repair mode.

The transition statuses are:

Status	Description
`creating`	The Container is being created.
`mounting`	The Container is being mounted.
`starting`	The Container is starting.
`stopping`	The Container is stopping.
`restarting`	The Container is being restarted.
`unmounting`	The Container is being unmounted.
`destroying`	The Container is being deleted.
`starting-repair`	The Container is entering the repair mode.
`stopping-repair`	The Container is quitting the repair mode.
`setting`	The Container parameters are being set.
`migrating`	The Container is being migrated.
`moving`	The Container is being moved.
`cloning`	The Container is being cloned.
`updating`	The Container is being updated.
`backing-up`	The Container is being backed up.
`restoring`	The Container is being restored from the backup.
`reinstalling`	The Container is being reinstalled.
`suspending`	The Container is being suspended.
`resuming`	The Container is being resumed from the suspended state.

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