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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. - -.. 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. |