From b04935b08394a9b64b69429215e27f0323065bfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kalyanreddy Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:34:11 +0530 Subject: Update documentation structure. This patch is used to update documentation structure. Change-Id: I50d4ef4256ccfc57a0434123e7532a50000582cf Co-Authored by:Srinivas Co-Authored by:RajithaY Co-Authored by:shravani paladugula Co-Authored by:Navya Bathula Signed-off-by: Gundarapu Kalyan Reddy (cherry picked from commit f1f3cc27f23bdde81c37d8142d4288d811bd5e45) --- docs/release/glossary/kvmfornfv_glossary.rst | 401 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 401 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/release/glossary/kvmfornfv_glossary.rst (limited to 'docs/release/glossary/kvmfornfv_glossary.rst') diff --git a/docs/release/glossary/kvmfornfv_glossary.rst b/docs/release/glossary/kvmfornfv_glossary.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aed5a971e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release/glossary/kvmfornfv_glossary.rst @@ -0,0 +1,401 @@ +.. 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. -- cgit 1.2.3-korg