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Definitely,'hypervisor node' is clear and unambiguous.

Summer

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Still" <mikal at stillhq.com>
> To: "Andreas Jaeger" <aj at suse.com>
> Cc: "Summer Long" <slong at redhat.com>, openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 6:58:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] Compute node vs compute node
> 
> 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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