PowerVC services

PowerVC APIs are provided by a number of specialized interoperable services.

Each service is accessible on a distinct port number and provides a set of APIs that run specialized functions that are related to that service. The services are as follows:
Table 1. PowerVC services and their descriptions
Project or service name Description
OpenStack projects
Telemetry (ceilometer) Billing, benchmarking, scalability, and statistics. Is used for auditing in PowerVC.
Storage (cinder) Storage and storage volume management.
Image (glance) Images and image management.
Identity (keystone) Security, identity, and authentication services.
Networking (neutron) Networking and network management.
Compute (nova) Host or compute. Manages the lifecycle and operations of compute resources.
PowerVC services
Validator Validates the PowerVC environment.