The VM Build Container can be used to build VMs containing any Rhino application. The VMs it produces are called Custom VMs. This manual provides instructions for configuring and deploying such custom VMs on VMware vSphere or OpenStack virtual machine hosts.
Glossary
The following acronyms and abbreviations are used throughout the VM Build Container documentation.
Any occurrence of Rhino VoLTE TAS or RVT in this document is meant to include the custom VMs.
CDS |
Configuration Data Store Database used to store configuration data for the VMs. |
CSAR |
Cloud Service ARchive File type used by the SIMPL VM. |
Deployment ID |
Uniquely identifies a deployment, which can consist of many sites, each with many groups of VMs |
Image name |
Image name, as specified in |
OVA |
Open Virtual Appliance File type used by VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud. |
OVF |
Open Virtualization Format File type used by VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud. |
QCOW2 |
QEMU Copy on Write 2 File type used by OpenStack. |
SDF |
Solution Definition File Describes the deployment, for consumption by the SIMPL VM. |
Site ID |
Uniquely identifies one site within the deployment, normally a geographic site (e.g. one data center) |
TAS |
Telecom Application Server |
VM |
Virtual Machine |
VMBC |
Virtual Machine Build Container Tool for building VMs for Rhino applications. |
YANG |
Yet Another Next Generation Schemas used for verifying YAML files. |
