From a90c29deddc599027822dd1ee61b8cd58021f651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryota MIBU Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 00:35:21 +0900 Subject: change dirs to use new opnfv doc build script Change-Id: Ifbf8a881d0e1a962f2e3cf276fe3942b1f03d3ee Signed-off-by: Ryota MIBU --- docs/requirements/glossary.rst | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/requirements/glossary.rst (limited to 'docs/requirements/glossary.rst') diff --git a/docs/requirements/glossary.rst b/docs/requirements/glossary.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1addb9c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/requirements/glossary.rst @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +**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