[occi-wg] Resource Types: Compute / Network / Storage

[Ignacio Martin Llorente]

Now, it looks complete :)
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On 19/04/2009, at 10:25, Sam Johnston wrote:

> Morning,
>
> Turns out this isn't such a bad idea as between writing and sending  
> that post Andy Edmonds independently suggested exactly the same  
> thing via the wiki (suggestion: change workload to compute -  
> workload might be something ran on a compute resource).
>
> This is such a good (albeit obvious) idea - thanks David/RM-WG -  
> that I've even updated my cloud computing reference model (attached)  
> by adding "network' to it.
>
> Sam
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:
> Evening,
>
> So one thing I did see validated by the rm-wg document was the trend  
> towards compute/network/storage that we're fast settling on ourselves.
>
> Our current terminology however is far more specific - we've picked  
> up "Drive" and "Server" from ElasticHosts for example. While this  
> does make sense a lot of the time there's nothing to say that OCCI  
> can't be used for VDI for example, where the "servers" are in fact  
> "clients". Take it a step further and you've got things like  
> Dreamhost PS which kind of like a virtual provate server in that it  
> behaves like one (it can be restarted via their API etc.), only it  
> refers to resource allocations in a shared hosting environment or  
> MySQL instances.
>
> Granted that's outside of our remit but ther'es no point stopping  
> them from using it by choosing our terminology poorly. In fact a lot  
> of these functions can apply equally to physical machines as they  
> can to lightweight threads in an Apache process (and everything in  
> between including, of course, virtual machines which are currently  
> our primary target).
>
> I've been trying to think of other resources outside of these three  
> main types but even strange things like ISDN interfaces (yes, this  
> sort of thing does appear in enterprise data centers) can be handled  
> via PCI passthrough parameters on a virtual machine.
>
> All in all, unless anyone has any concerns about this approach I'd  
> like to adopt this terminology throughout.
>
> Sam
>
>
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