I believe we have doc tools now that would enable a shared glossary for all documents. Let me investigate and report back to the list. <br><br>Anne<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Tim Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It would be useful if there was a glossary of terms related to Openstack. It is easy to get confused as many words are overloaded or slightly different between different parts of Openstack.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is also the page on identity at <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-identity/admin/content/Identity-Service-Concepts-e1362.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-identity/admin/content/Identity-Service-Concepts-e1362.html</span></a> which defines some concepts.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">From <a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Glossary" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://wiki.openstack.org/Glossary</span></a>, there is a pointer to <a href="http://cloudglossary.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://cloudglossary.com/</span></a> but the openstack terms are not in there.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is also <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/incubation/openstack-network/developer/quantum-api-1.0/content/Glossary.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://docs.openstack.org/incubation/openstack-network/developer/quantum-api-1.0/content/Glossary.html</span></a> for networking.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tim<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> openstack-bounces+tim.bell=<a href="mailto:cern.ch@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">cern.ch@lists.launchpad.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:openstack-bounces%2Btim.bell" target="_blank">openstack-bounces+tim.bell</a>=<a href="mailto:cern.ch@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">cern.ch@lists.launchpad.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sandy Walsh<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 20 March 2012 12:07<br><b>To:</b> Nicolae Paladi; <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Availability Zone is an EC2 concept. Zones were a sharding scheme for Nova. Zones are being renamed to Cells to avoid further confusion. Availability Zones will remain the same. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Hope it helps!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">-S<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">
<span style><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@lists.launchpad.net</a> [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=<a href="mailto:rackspace.com@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">rackspace.com@lists.launchpad.net</a>] on behalf of Nicolae Paladi [<a href="mailto:n.paladi@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.paladi@gmail.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Hi all, <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>What is the difference between "nova zone(s)" and "availability_zone"?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>In a new deployment, the *services* table in the nova db contains an "availability_zone"<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>column (which is 'nova', but default). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>If that is not the same as "nova zones" (which are logical deployments, as far as I understood), where is information<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>about zones stored?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>The only documentation about "zones" in openstack that I could find is here:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><a href="http://nova.openstack.org/devref/zone.html" target="_blank">http://nova.openstack.org/devref/zone.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>is there anything on availability zones?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Cheers, <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>/Nicolae.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>
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