That's true but typically only Regions are exposed to end users. In jclouds = OpenStack terminology it's Zone = Region (yes it's confusing). So when you call NovaApi.getConfiguredZones() what's actually being returned is the Regions.
You can get an overview of these in the OpenStack Ops Guide - Segregating Your Cloud [1] Regards, Everett [1] http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-ops/content/scaling.html#segregate_cloud On Nov 22, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Nirmal Fernando wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for investigating. AFAIK Openstack has a 3 layer hierarchy : > > Region --> Zone --> Host > 1 : n > 1 : m > > > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Andrew Phillips <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Could you give an example of how you're looking to *use* this region >>> property? >>> >> >> PS: Looking at tickets such as JCLOUDS-344 [1] and the corresponding code >> change [2], could it be that what you are looking for is what the jclouds >> OpenStack API refers to as "zones"? >> >> ap >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-344 >> [2] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/174/files >> > > > > -- > > Thanks & regards, > Nirmal > > Senior Software Engineer- Platform Technologies Team, WSO2 Inc. > Mobile: +94715779733 > Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
