From 78aa63af02df682b3c8d825c1bec9cec6cd3b207 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Kunzmann Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 09:36:29 +0000 Subject: Update docs structure according to new guidelines in https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DOC Change-Id: I69e6536d9044dd9db2ed3cd698059aa3a800c318 Signed-off-by: Gerald Kunzmann --- docs/requirements/glossary.rst | 73 ------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 73 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 docs/requirements/glossary.rst (limited to 'docs/requirements/glossary.rst') diff --git a/docs/requirements/glossary.rst b/docs/requirements/glossary.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 48fd75b..0000000 --- a/docs/requirements/glossary.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -.. 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. -- cgit 1.2.3-korg