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I've been increasingly using "hypervisor node" for those nodes which
run hypervisors to host instances. It just feels clearer.

Hope that helps.

Michael

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 12:20 AM, Summer Long wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I've used 'Compute nodes' to indicate where the Compute service is
>> hosted. Or rather, I see that it's hosting Compute as the defining factor.
>> Others use 'compute nodes', but we could have one of these without
>> Compute running on it.
>>
>> Could we nail a convention? This just came up in one of my patches.
>
> The glossary defines "compute nodes".
>
> What does hosting Compute mean? Parts of Compute are deployed on the
> controller nodes, and nova-compute runs on the compute nodes.
>
> My reference is:
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/install-guide/install/zypper/content/ch_overview.html#overview-architecture
>
> If you have a node where the compute service is hosted, it's the
> controller node.
>
> So, IMHO we should use "compute node" (lower case!) and "compute host"
> if you speak about the node where virtual machines run on. If you speak
> about the machine that hosts Compute Services, it's the "controller
> node". In both cases we use lower case,
>
> Andreas
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