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| 2 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | Glossary |
| 3 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | ======== |
| 4 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | |
| 5 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | .. if you add new entries, keep the alphabetical sorting! |
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| 7 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | .. glossary:: |
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| 9 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | BE Parameter |
| 10 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | BE stands for Backend. BE parameters are hypervisor-independent |
| 11 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | instance parameters such as the amount of RAM/virtual CPUs it has |
| 12 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | been allocated. |
| 13 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | |
| 14 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | HVM |
| 15 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | Hardware virtualization mode, where the virtual machine is |
| 16 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | oblivious to the fact that's being virtualized and all the |
| 17 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | hardware is emulated. |
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| 19 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | LogicalUnit |
| 20 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | The code associated with an OpCode, e.g. the code that implements |
| 21 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | the startup of an instance. |
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| 23 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | LUXI |
| 24 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | Local UniX Interface. The IPC method over unix sockets used between |
| 25 | 3d5ebbf0 | Stephen Shirley | the cli tools and the master daemon. |
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| 27 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | OpCode |
| 28 | 7faf5110 | Michael Hanselmann | A data structure encapsulating a basic cluster operation; for |
| 29 | 7faf5110 | Michael Hanselmann | example, start instance, add instance, etc. |
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| 31 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | PVM |
| 32 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | Para-virtualization mode, where the virtual machine knows it's being |
| 33 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | virtualized and as such there is no need for hardware emulation. |
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| 35 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | watcher |
| 36 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | ``ganeti-watcher`` is a tool that should be run regularly from cron |
| 37 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | and takes care of restarting failed instances, restarting secondary |
| 38 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | DRBD devices, etc. For more details, see the man page |
| 39 | e2078d28 | Iustin Pop | :manpage:`ganeti-watcher(8)`. |
| 40 | 558fd122 | Michael Hanselmann | |
| 41 | 558fd122 | Michael Hanselmann | .. vim: set textwidth=72 : |