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On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Armando Migliaccio wrote: > >> I think you touched the crucial point here: what is exposed to the user and >> what not. Reading: >> >> http://wiki.openstack.org/MultiClusterZones#Design >> >> one would think that zones is a concept exposed to end users. You're saying >> otherwise; Is it just my misunderstanding or the wiki page is out of sync >> with the latest developments? If zones are not going to be exposed to the >> users, what will? Just availability zones? > > Zones *could* be exposed, but that is not intrinsic to their design. > Availability zones could be designated as a particular level of nesting of > the overall zone design, such as a particular region, and users could specify > the AZ they want their instance to be provisioned in. But a region might have > several data centers, each of which could be a zone, and individual DCs could > have several zones within them based on the physical layout of the building, > or networking capacity, or because of incremental build out, or for any > number of other reasons, none of which are relevant to a user. > > The term "zone" was adopted at a time when we weren't really focusing > on mimicking the AWS Availability Zone concept, and in hindsight, it was a > poor choice. So we should learn from that mistake and make sure we don't > choose a replacement term that already has a common usage, such as shards > segments or clusters. > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
