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-.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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-.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
-
-**************
-OPNFV Glossary
-**************
-
-Danube 1.0
-------------
-
-
-Contents
---------
-
-This glossary provides a common definition of phrases and words commonly used
-in OPNFV.
-
---------
-
-A
-~
-
-Arno
-
- A river running through Tuscany and the name of the first OPNFV release.
-
-API
-
- Application Programming Interface
-
-AVX2
-
- Advanced Vector Extensions 2 is an instruction set extension for x86.
-
-
---------
-
-B
-~
-
-Brahmaputra
-
- A river running through Asia and the name of the Second OPNFV release.
-
-Bios
-
- Basic Input/Output System
-
-Builds
-
- Build in Jenkins is a version of a program.
-
-Bogomips
-
- Bogomips is the number of million times per second a processor can do
- absolutely nothing.
-
---------
-
-C
-~
-
-CAT
-
- Cache Automation Technology
-
-CentOS
-
- Community Enterprise Operating System is a Linux distribution
-
-CICD
-
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
-
-CLI
-
- Command Line Interface
-
-Colorado
-
- A river in Argentina and the name of the Third OPNFV release.
-
-Compute
-
- Compute is an OpenStack service which offers many configuration options
- which may be deployment specific.
-
-Console
-
- Console is display screen.
-
-CPU
- Central Processing Unit
-
---------
-
-D
-~
-
-Danube
-
- Danube is the fourth release of OPNFV and also a river in Europe
-
-Data plane
-
- The data plane is the part of a network that carries user traffic.
-
-Debian/deb
-
- Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of
- free software.
-
-Docs
-
- Documentation/documents
-
-DPDK
-
- Data Plane Development Kit
-
-DPI
-
- Deep Packet Inspection
-
-DSCP
-
- Differentiated Services Code Point
-
---------
-
-F
-~
-
-Flavors
-
- Flavors are templates used to define VM configurations.
-
-Fuel
-
- Provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment and management of OpenStack
-
---------
-
-H
-~
-
-Horizon
-
- Horizon is an OpenStack service which serves as an UI.
-
-Hypervisor
-
- A hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager, is a program that allows
- multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
-
---------
-
-I
-~
-
-IGMP
-
- Internet Group Management Protocol
-
-IOMMU
-
- Input-Output Memory Management Unit
-
-IOPS
-
- Input/Output Operations Per Second
-
-IRQ
-
- Interrupt ReQuest is an interrupt request sent from the hardware level to
- the CPU.
-
-IRQ affinity
-
- IRQ affinity is the set of CPU cores that can service that interrupt.
-
---------
-
-J
-~
-
-Jenkins
-
- Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java.
-
-JIRA
-
- JIRA is a bug tracking software.
-
-Jitter
-
- Time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter.
-
-JumpHost
-
- A jump host or jump server or jumpbox is a computer on a network typically
- used to manage devices in a separate security zone.
-
---------
-
-K
-~
-
-Kernel
-
- The kernel is a computer program that constitutes the central core of a
- computer's operating system.
-
---------
-
-L
-~
-
-Latency
-
- The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination is
- Latency.
-
-libvirt
-
- libvirt is an open source API, daemon and management tool for managing
- platform virtualization.
-
---------
-
-M
-~
-
-Migration
-
- Migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment
- to another operating environment.
-
---------
-
-N
-~
-
-NFV
-
- Network Functions Virtualisation, an industry initiative to leverage
- virtualisation technologies in carrier networks.
-
-NFVI
-
- Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
-
-NIC
-
- Network Interface Controller
-
-NUMA
-
- Non-Uniform Memory Access
-
---------
-
-O
-~
-
-OPNFV
-
- Open Platform for NFV, an open source project developing an NFV reference
- platform and features.
-
---------
-
-P
-~
-
-Pharos
-
- Is a lighthouse and is a project deals with developing an OPNFV lab
- infrastructure that is geographically and technically diverse.
-
-Pipeline
-
- A suite of plugins in Jenkins that lets you orchestrate automation.
-
-Platform
-
- OPNFV provides an open source platform for deploying NFV solutions that
- leverages investments from a community of developers and solution providers.
-
-Pools
-
- A Pool is a set of resources that are kept ready to use, rather than acquired
- on use and released afterwards.
-
---------
-
-Q
-~
-
-Qemu
-
- QEMU is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware
- virtualization.
-
---------
-
-R
-~
-
-RDMA
-
- Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
-
-Rest-Api
-
- REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style, and an
- approach to communications that is often used in the development of web
- services
-
---------
-
-S
-~
-
-Scaling
-
- Refers to altering the size.
-
-Slave
-
- Works with/for master.where master has unidirectional control over one or
- more other devices.
-
-SR-IOV
-
- Single root IO- Virtualization.
-
-Spin locks
-
- A spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply
- wait in a loop while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
-
-Storage
-
- Refers to computer components which store some data.
-
---------
-
-T
-~
-
-Tenant
-
- A Tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific
- privileges to the software instance.
-
-Tickless
-
- A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts
- do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
-
-TSC
-
- Technical Steering Committee
-
---------
-
-V
-~
-
-VLAN
-
- A virtual local area network, typically an isolated ethernet network.
-
-VM
-
- Virtual machine, an emulation in software of a computer system.
-
-VNF
-
- Virtual network function, typically a networking application or function
- running in a virtual environment.
-
---------
-
-X
-~
-
-XBZRLE
-
- Helps to reduce the network traffic by just sending the updated data
-
---------
-
-Y
-~
-
-Yardstick
-
- Yardstick is an infrastructure verification. It is an OPNFV testing project.