NSP deployment terms and concepts

Introduction

The NSP deployment and administration guides use specific terms to describe some basic elements of an NSP system. The following topics define commonly used terms used in the NSP system documentation that may be unfamiliar to the reader.

Note: Although the usage of each term is typically as described, a specific context may include a variant of the term.

Station

A station is a physical processing entity that has one native OS instance, or hosts OS instances in multiple VMs. The term station is typically used only for configuration operations, such as actions that required CLI access.

The term “host station” is sometimes indicates the physical station that hosts a specific VM or function.

NSP deployer host

The NSP deployer host is a VM from which you deploy the container environment for an NSP cluster.

NSP cluster

An NSP cluster is a group of one or more VMs in a Kubernetes container environment that host NSP software and functions. An NSP system deployment includes at least one NSP cluster.

NSP cluster member

An NSP cluster member is a VM in an NSP cluster. An NSP cluster member is also called a cluster node, depending on the context.

NSP cluster host

The NSP cluster host is a specific NSP cluster member from which NSP deployment operations in the cluster are performed. Typically, node 1 of a cluster is chosen as the NSP cluster host.