January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 54m
English
Availability Zones (AZs) are a special case of host aggregates. Here, host aggregates are used by Nova to make scheduling decisions; they are generally only visible to operators and administrators of the OpenStack Cloud. AZs are the end-user visible component. An AZ can be configured, like host aggregates, to represent features of the hardware.
AZs are typically used to define failure domains, such as a cabinet or data center, or even geography. When configuring AZs, it is important to note that a host can only be a member of one AZ at a time.
As AZs are a special use-case of host aggregates, a lot of operations, such as adding and removing hosts are the same. Thus, they are not repeated here.
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