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author | Gerald Kunzmann <kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com> | 2017-02-09 09:36:29 +0000 |
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committer | Gerald Kunzmann <kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com> | 2017-02-15 15:30:08 +0000 |
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Update docs structure according to new guidelines in https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DOC
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diff --git a/docs/development/requirements/glossary.rst b/docs/development/requirements/glossary.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48fd75b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/development/requirements/glossary.rst @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +=================== +Definition of terms +=================== + +Different SDOs and communities use different terminology related to +NFV/Cloud/SDN. This list tries to define an OPNFV terminology, +mapping/translating the OPNFV terms to terminology used in other contexts. + +.. glossary:: + + Administrator + Administrator of the system, e.g. OAM in Telco context. + + Consumer + User-side Manager; consumer of the interfaces produced by the VIM; VNFM, + NFVO, or Orchestrator in ETSI NFV [NFV003]_ terminology. + + NFV + Network Function Virtualization + + NFVI + Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure; totality of all hardware + and software components which build up the environment in which VNFs are + deployed. + + NFVO + Network Functions Virtualization Orchestrator; functional block that + manages the Network Service (NS) lifecycle and coordinates the management + of NS lifecycle, VNF lifecycle (supported by the VNFM) and NFVI resources + (supported by the VIM) to ensure an optimized allocation of the necessary + resources and connectivity. + + Physical resource + Actual resources in NFVI; not visible to Consumer. + + Resource zone + A set of NFVI hardware and software resources logically grouped + according to physical isolation and redundancy capabilities or to + certain administrative policies for the NFVI [NFVIFA010]_ + + VIM + Virtualized Infrastructure Manager; functional block that is responsible + for controlling and managing the NFVI compute, storage and network + resources, usually within one operator's Infrastructure Domain, e.g. NFVI + Point of Presence (NFVI-PoP). + + Virtual Machine (VM) + Virtualized computation environment that behaves very much like a physical + computer/server. + + Virtual network + Virtual network routes information among the network interfaces of VM + instances and physical network interfaces, providing the necessary + connectivity. + + Virtual resource + A Virtual Machine (VM), a virtual network, or virtualized storage; Offered + resources to "Consumer" as result of infrastructure virtualization; + visible to Consumer. + + Virtual Storage + Virtualized non-volatile storage allocated to a VM. + + VNF + Virtualized Network Function. Implementation of an Network Function that + can be deployed on a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI). + + VNFM + Virtualized Network Function Manager; functional block that is responsible + for the lifecycle management of VNF. |