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authorZuul <zuul@review.opendev.org>2022-02-07 10:27:51 +0000
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has an empty ("") ``image`` parameter in ``GET /servers/{server_id}``
responses.
+ Cell
+ A cell is a shard or horizontal partition in a nova deployment.
+ A cell mostly consists of a database, queue, and set of compute nodes.
+ All deployments willl have at least one cell (and one "fake" cell).
+ Larger deployments can have many.
+
+ For more information, refer to :doc:`/admin/cells`.
+
Cross-Cell Resize
A resize (or cold migrate) operation where the source and destination
compute hosts are mapped to different cells. By default, resize and