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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/glossary.rst b/doc/source/reference/glossary.rst index 304467e908..a337699aca 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/glossary.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/glossary.rst @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ Glossary 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 will 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 |