+1 for compute-cells ~sean
On Feb 19, 2012, at 11:10 AM, "Tim Bell" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fully agree with the prefix for the cell... there should be storage-cells > and compute-cells with different goals in terms of data locality and > availability, zone has become too overloaded... > > Tim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Mark Washenberger >> Sent: 19 February 2012 19:54 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Remove Zones code - FFE >> >>> Remember that for many deployments, the entire system will be a >>> single "zone", so whatever term is used should make sense in a >>> singular sense. That rules out names such as 'slice' or 'fragment'. >> >> I think this is a slightly outdated concept of zones. >> >> The key to scalability in nova is to divide the set of all compute nodes > into >> subsets, each with its own messaging and database infrastructure. The >> granularity of everything else (scheduling, api, volume, network, > what-have- >> you) is just an implementation or deployment detail that should be > flexible >> depending on our ultimate implementation and any alternative strategies we >> expose to deployers. >> >> With this in mind it's still true that the smallest deployment would be > likely >> include just one compute zone (or compute cell, as we are trending). But >> that is a far cry from the whole system even in a small deployment. >> >> For this reason, whatever name we choose I would hope we prefix it with >> "compute-" (i.e. compute-zone or compute-cell) so that we aren't letting >> language trick us out of some of our better implementation options, such > as >> allowing deployers to scale compute, volume, network, and api resources >> separately. >> >> "Ed Leafe" <[email protected]> said: >> >>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Nathanael Burton wrote: >>> >>>> Sectors remind me too much of disks. >>> >>> Agreed. >>> >>>> How about? Layers, Slices, Fragments, Knots... >>> >>> Remember that for many deployments, the entire system will be a >>> single "zone", so whatever term is used should make sense in a >>> singular sense. That rules out names such as 'slice' or 'fragment'. >>> >>> 'Knot'? In what sense can 'knot' be used? >>> >>> I still prefer 'cell'. The parallel to single celled / > multi-cellular >>> life forms makes sense, and there is really no overloading of the word >>> in the world of computers. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- Ed Leafe >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <smime.p7s> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
