abiCloud Glossary
This chapter presents the different entities that appear in the application
| Entity | Description |
|---|---|
| Cloud User |
An enterprise user with privileges to create virtual Appliances and manage them |
| Data center |
A data center is the physical infrastructure of a cloud provider. A cloud provider can be private (a datacenter of a big company) or public (a hosting company) |
| Enterprise |
The entity that agglutinates the virtual cloud infrastructure of a company. An enterprise can create virtual datacenters, virtual Appliance, etc. This enterprise virtual infrastructure can be isolated from other enterprise clouds. |
| Enterprise Cloud Admin |
The enterprise user with the most privileges who manages the private cloud of the enterprise and adds new Cloud users to its cloud infrastructure |
| Hypervisor |
The virtualization technology installed on each Physical Machine that permits the creation of virtual Machines |
| Node |
The node is one of the components of the appliance (One virtual Image). For example 1 apache server is a node of the myWebSite Appliance |
| Physical Machine |
A server on the data center |
| Rack |
The physical box that contains physical machines |
| SysAdmin |
It's the user role that will be able to manage the virtual and physical infrastructure of the data center and customize it to offer the cloud functionalities to enterprises |
| Virtual Appliance |
The main object of abiCloud. A virtual appliance is based on the OVF standard and it's the component that defines a complex system (Virtual Images, network, storage, etc.). For example, myWebSite can be an appliance composed of 1 load balancer, 2 apache servers and 1 MySQL server. |
| Virtual Data Center |
An abstract object to define a logical group of virtual appliances. |
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