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[Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Anne

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 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
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> There is also the page on identity at
> http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-identity/admin/content/Identity-Service-Concepts-e1362.htmlwhich defines some concepts.
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> From http://wiki.openstack.org/Glossary, there is a pointer to
> http://cloudglossary.com/ but the openstack terms are not in there.****
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> There is also
> http://docs.openstack.org/incubation/openstack-network/developer/quantum-api-1.0/content/Glossary.htmlfor networking.
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> Tim****
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> *From:* openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Sandy
> Walsh
> *Sent:* 20 March 2012 12:07
> *To:* Nicolae Paladi; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"****
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> 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. ****
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> Hope it helps!****
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> -S****
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> *From:* openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=
> rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Nicolae Paladi [
> n.paladi@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:55 AM
> *To:* openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"****
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> Hi all,  ****
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> What is the difference between "nova zone(s)" and "availability_zone"?****
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> In a new deployment, the *services* table in the nova db contains an
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> If that is not the same as "nova zones"  (which are logical deployments,
> as far as I understood), where is information****
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> about zones stored?****
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> The only documentation about "zones" in openstack that I could find is
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> http://nova.openstack.org/devref/zone.html****
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> is there anything on availability zones?****
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> Cheers, ****
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> /Nicolae.****
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