Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Cloud Execution Environment
Contents
1 Introduction
This document defines the terms and acronyms used in the documentation for Ericsson Cloud Execution Environment.
This document explains terms and abbreviations in Ericsson Cloud Execution Environment documentation, including some for cross-reference purposes. The arrow symbol ⇒ indicates a reference to another entry.
2 Terms
| Term | Description of the term. | |
| Acronym | Acronym expansion. Description of the term. | |
Glossary
| ACL |
| Access Control List |
| AEF |
| Additional Environment File |
| ALUA |
| Asymmetric Logical Unit Access |
| AMQP |
| Advanced Message Queuing Protocol |
| API |
| Application Programming Interface |
| ARP |
| Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASP |
| Application Service Provider |
| BBSC |
| Broadband Service Controller |
| BGCI |
| Blade Group Control Interface |
| BGP |
| Border Gateway Protocol |
| BGW |
| Border Gateway |
| BIOS |
| Basic Input/Output System |
| BM |
| Bare Metal |
| BOM |
| Bill Of Material |
| BoQ |
| Bill of Quantity |
| BSP |
| Blade Server Platform |
| C-VLAN |
| Customer VLAN |
| CA |
| Certificate Authority |
| cApp |
| Cloud Application |
| CCM |
| Continuity Check Message Command Centre Manager |
| CEE |
| Cloud Execution Environment |
| CEEADM |
| Cloud Execution Environment Administrator |
| CFM |
| Connectivity Fault Management |
| CIC |
| Cloud Infrastructure Controller The CIC domain |
| CIDR |
| Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| CLI |
| Command-Line Interface |
| CM-HA |
| Continuous Monitoring High Availability |
| CMS |
| Console Management Server |
| CMU |
| Chassis Management Unit |
| CMX |
| Component Main Switch |
| CMXB |
| Component Main Switch Board |
| compute host |
| Physical host dedicated to running compute nodes. |
| compute node |
| A node that runs the compute daemon, a VM instance that provides a wide range of services such as a web service and analytics. |
| COTS |
| Commercial off the Shelf |
| CPU |
| Central Processing Unit |
| CSC |
| Cloud SDN Controller |
| CSR |
| Certificate Signing Request Customer Service Request |
| CSS |
| Cloud SDN Switch release 3, based on OVS 2.5 |
| CU |
| Capturing Unit |
| DB |
| Database |
| DAS |
| Direct-Access Storage |
| DC |
| Data Center |
| DCFW |
| Data Center Firewall |
| DCGW |
| Data Center Gateway |
| DDoS |
| Distributed Denial of Service |
| DHCP |
| Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DM-MPIO |
| Linux Device Mapper iSCSI multipath |
| DMTF |
| Distributed Management Task Force |
| DMX |
| Distributed Main Switch |
| DMXC |
| Distributed Main Switch Controller |
| DMZ |
| Demilitarized Zone |
| DN |
| Distinguished Name |
| DNS |
| Domain Name System |
| DoS |
| Denial of Service |
| DPDK |
| Data Plane Development Kit |
| EAS |
| Equipment Access Switch |
| EBS |
| Ericsson Blade System |
| ECM |
| Ericsson Cloud Management Ericsson Cloud Manager |
| ECMP |
| Equal-Cost Multi-Path |
| EGEM2 |
| Enhanced Generic Ericsson Magazine, type 2 |
| EMC |
| Storage service provider EMC2 |
| enclosure |
| See shelf |
| EPG |
| Evolved Packet Gateway |
| EqM |
| Equipment Management |
| ESD |
| Electrostatic Discharge |
| EVS |
| Ericsson Virtual Switch (replaced by CSS) |
| EXOS |
| ExtremeXOS |
| FAST |
| Fully Automated Storage Tiering |
| FM |
| Fault Management |
| Fuel |
| Product name, software life cycle management tool used to deploy CEE |
| FW |
| Firmware Firewall |
| FWaaS |
| Firewall as a Service |
| GA |
| General Availability |
| GE |
| Gigabit Ethernet |
| GEP |
| Generic Ericsson Processor |
| GPG |
| GNU Privacy Guard |
| GRE |
| Generic Routing Encapsulation |
| GUI |
| Graphical User Interface |
| GW |
| Gateway |
| HA |
| High Availability |
| HAProxy |
| Service used to provide a single north-bound IP address from the CIC cluster. |
| HDD |
| Hard Disk Drive |
| HDS |
| Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System |
| host |
| A physical unit referring to the hardware, the operating system, or the hypervisor |
| hostname |
| A label assigned to a device on a computer network |
| host OS |
| An Operating System running on a physical processor |
| HOT |
| Heat Orchestration Template |
| HP |
| Hewlett Packard |
| HTTP |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
| IM |
| Installation Manager |
| I/O |
| Input/output |
| IaaS |
| Infrastructure as a Service |
| ICMP |
| Internet Control Management Protocol |
| IdAM |
| Identity and Access Management |
| iDRAC |
| Integrated Dell Remote Access Control |
| IDS |
| Intrusion Detection System |
| IEC |
| International Electrotechnical Commission |
| iLO |
| Integrated Lights Out |
| IOC |
| I/O Cards |
| IPMI |
| Intelligent Platform Management Interface |
| ISC |
| Inter Switch Connection |
| iSCSI |
| Internet Small Computer System Interface |
| IPS |
| Intrusion Prevention System |
| IRP |
| Intermediate Release Package |
| ISL |
| InterSwitch link |
| ISP |
| In-Service Performance |
| JSON |
| JavaScript Object Notation |
| kickstart |
| Computer used to install CEE |
| KPI |
| Key Performance Indicator |
| KVM |
| Kernel-based Virtual Machine |
| LACP |
| Link Aggregation Control Protocol |
| LACPDU |
| Link Aggregation Control Protocol Data Unit |
| LAG |
| Link Aggregation Link Aggregation Group |
| LAN |
| Local Area Network |
| LBaaS |
| Load Balancer as a Service |
| LC |
| Lucent Connector |
| LCT |
| Local Craft Terminal Locally Connected Terminal |
| LDAP |
| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LIA |
| Light Installation Agent |
| LOM |
| Lights-Out Management |
| LUN |
| Logical Unit Number |
| MA |
| Maintenance Association |
| MAC |
| Multiple Access Control |
| MC-LAG |
| Multi Chassis Link Aggregation Group |
| MDM |
| Meta Data Manager |
| MIB |
| Management Information Base |
| MII |
| Media Independent Interface |
| ML2 |
| Modular Layer 2 The Modular Layer 2 plug-in for Neutron in OpenStack |
| MO |
| Managed Object |
| MOS |
| Mirantis OpenStack |
| MP |
| Maintenance Point |
| MPO/MTP |
| Multiple-Fiber Push-On/Pull-off |
| MTU |
| Maximum Transmission Unit |
| NAPT |
| Network Address Port Translation |
| NAT |
| Network Address Translation |
| NB |
| Northbound |
| NBI |
| Northbound Interface |
| NE |
| Network Element |
| NFV |
| Network Function Virtualization |
| NFVO |
| Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator |
| NIC |
| Network Interface Controller |
| NIR |
| Network Impact Report |
| NMS |
| Network Management Station |
| NOC |
| Network Operations Center Network Operator Control Network Operator Control domain |
| node |
| A logical device or operational unit in the network |
| NPC |
| Network Processing Card |
| NTP |
| Network Time Protocol |
| NUMA |
| Non-Uniform Memory Access |
| O&M |
| Operation & Maintenance |
| O/E |
| Optical / Electrical |
| OA |
| Onboard Administrator |
| OAM |
| Operation, Administration, and Maintenance |
| ODL |
| Open Daylight |
| OMC |
| Operation and Maintenance Center |
| OPEB |
| Optical Port Extender Board |
| OPI |
| Operational Instruction |
| OS |
| Operating System |
| OSTF |
| OpenStack Testing Framework |
| OVA |
| Open Virtualization Alliance Open Virtualization Appliance |
| OVDK |
| OpenVswitch with Intel Dataplane Development Kit |
| OVF |
| Open Virtualization Format |
| OVFT |
| Open Virtualization Format Translator |
| OVS |
| Open Virtual Switch |
| PaaS |
| Platform as a Service |
| PAPI |
| Producer API |
| PC |
| Personal Computer |
| PCI |
| Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCIe |
| PCI Express |
| PCP |
| Priority Code Point |
| PDU |
| Power Distribution Unit Protocol Data Unit Product Development Unit |
| PF |
| Physical Function |
| PID |
| Process ID |
| PM |
| Performance Management |
| PMD |
| Poll Mode Driver |
| pod |
| A pre-integrated building block of HW and SW components |
| PSIRT |
| Product Security Incident Response Team |
| PSU |
| Power Supply Unit |
| PXE |
| Preboot Execution Environment |
| QSFP |
| Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable |
| RAID |
| Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| RBAC |
| Role-Based Access Control |
| region |
| A Discrete OpenStack environment with dedicated API endpoints, that typically shares only the Identity Service with other regions |
| RELP |
| Reliable Event Logging Protocol |
| REST |
| Representational State Transfer |
| RHEL |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| RSPAN |
| Remote Switched Port Analyzer |
| RPC |
| Remote Procedure Call |
| RX |
| Receiver Mode |
| SAN |
| Storage Area Network |
| SaaS |
| Software as a Service |
| SBI |
| Southbound Interface |
| SC |
| System Controller |
| SCP |
| Secure Copy |
| SCX |
| System Control Switch |
| SCXB |
| System Control Switch Board |
| SD |
| Security Domain |
| SDC |
| ScaleIO Data Client |
| SDK |
| Software Development Kit |
| SDN |
| Software Defined Networking |
| SDS |
| ScaleIO Data Server |
| SFP |
| Small Form-Factor Pluggable |
| SFTP |
| Secure File Transfer Protocol |
| shelf |
| Describes placement in a cabinet. Also called subrack or enclosure. |
| SIEM |
| Security Information and Event Management Security Information and Event Manager |
| SIO |
| ScaleIO |
| SLES |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server |
| SM |
| Security Management |
| SNMP |
| Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SOA |
| Service-Oriented Architecture |
| SP |
| Storage Processor |
| SPAN |
| Switched Port Analyzer |
| SPC |
| Services Processing Card |
| SPoF |
| Single Point of Failure |
| SR-IOV |
| Single Root-IOV, Input/Output Virtualization |
| SQL |
| Structured Query Language |
| SSD |
| Solid State Drive |
| SSH |
| Secure Shell |
| SSH-2 |
| SSH version two |
| SSR |
| Smart Services Router |
| stdin |
| standard input |
| STP |
| Spanning Tree Protocol |
| stratum |
| Level defining the distance from the network reference clock. A lower stratum value implies a more reliable the time source |
| subrack |
| See shelf |
| SUS |
| Shared Uplink Set |
| TB |
| Tie-Breaker |
| TCP |
| Transmission Control Protocol |
| TEAL |
| Telco Enhancements Adaptation Layer |
| TFTP |
| Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
| TLS |
| Transport Layer Security |
| ToR |
| Top of Rack Top of Rack switch |
| TOSCA |
| Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications |
| TR |
| Trouble Report |
| TX |
| Transmitter Mode |
| TXNR |
| Transaction Number |
| UG |
| User Guide |
| UI |
| User Interface |
| ULC |
| Undisciplined Local Clock |
| UNI |
| User-to-Network Interface |
| USM |
| Unisphere Service Manager |
| URI |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL |
| Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB |
| Universal Serial Bus |
| UTC |
| Coordinated Universal Time |
| UUID |
| Universally Unique Identifier |
| VC |
| Virtual Connect |
| vCIC |
| Virtual Cloud Infrastructure Controller One virtual CIC node |
| vCIC host |
| Physical host running a vCIC node |
| vCPU |
| Virtual Central Processing Unit |
| VF |
| Virtual Function |
| vFuel |
| Virtual Fuel |
| VID |
| VLAN Identifier |
| VIM |
| Virtual Infrastructure Manager Versatile Interface Module |
| VIP |
| Virtual IP |
| VLAN |
| Virtual Local Area Network |
| vDC |
| Virtual Data Center |
| VM |
| Virtual Machine |
| VNC |
| Virtual Network Control Virtual Network Computing |
| VNF |
| Virtual Network Function |
| VNFM |
| Virtualized Network Function Manager |
| vNIC |
| Virtual Network Interface Card Virtual Network Interface Controller |
| VNX |
| Product name, family of central storage solutions |
| VP |
| Value Pack |
| VPN |
| Virtual Private Network |
| vPOD |
| Virtualized Performance Optimized Datacenter |
| VPNaaS |
| Virtual Private Network as a Service |
| VR |
| Virtual Router |
| VRF |
| Virtual Routing Function Virtual Routing and Forwarding |
| VRID |
| Virtual Router Identifier |
| VRRP |
| Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol |
| vSwitch |
| Virtual Switch |
| VTEP |
| VXLAN Tunnel End Points |
| VXLAN |
| Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network |
| WAN |
| Wide Area Network |
| WSGI |
| Web Server Gateway Interface |
| XML |
| eXtensible Markup Language |