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ac alternating current
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AIK Automated Installation Kit
AMM Advanced Management Module
API application programming interface
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller
ASU Advanced Settings Utility
BC BladeCenter
BCD Boot Configuration Database
BIOS basic input output system
BMC Baseboard Management Controller
BoMC Bootable Media Creator
BS Blue Screen
CAS column address strobe
CD compact disc
CIM Common Information Model
CKE Clock Enable
CKVM Concurrent KVM
CLI command-line interface
CMOS complementary metal oxide
semiconductor
CNA Converged Network Adapter
COD configure on disk
COG configuration and option guide
COM Component Object Model
CPU central processing unit
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRU customer-replaceable units
CTO configure-to-order
DAU demand acceleration unit
DB database
DDF Disk Data Format
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol
DIMM dual inline memory module
DMA direct memory access
DNS Domain Name System
DPC deferred procedure call
DRAM dynamic random access memory
Abbreviations and acronyms
DSA Dynamic System Analysis
ECC error checking and correcting
EIA Electronic Industries Alliance
EMS Emergency Messaging Service
ER enterprise rack
ESA Electronic Service Agent
ESD electrostatic discharge
ETS Enhanced Technical Support
EXA Enterprise X-Architecture
FAMM Full Array Memory Mirroring
FC Fibre Channel
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FRU field-replaceable unit
GB gigabyte
GPT GUID Partition Table
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader
GT Gigatransfers
GUI graphical user interface
HBA host bus adapter
HDD hard disk drive
HE high end
HPC high performance computing
HPCBP High Performance Computing
Basic Profile
HPET High Precision Event Timer
HS hot swap
HT Hyper-Threading
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
I/O input/output
IBM International Business Machines
ID identifier
IEC International Electrotechnical
Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
IM instant messaging
IME Integrated Mirroring Enhanced
IMM Integrated Management Module
IOPS I/O operations per second
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IP Internet Protocol
IPMB Intelligent Platform Management
Bus
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management
Interface
IS information store
ISO International Organization for
Standards
IT information technology
ITSO International Technical Support
Organization
JBOD just a bunch of disks
KB kilobyte
KCS keyboard console style
KVM keyboard video mouse
LAN local area network
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol
LED light emitting diode
LGA land grid array
LPD light path diagnostic
LUN logical unit number
MAC media access control
MB megabyte
MCA Machine Check Architecture
MDIX medium-dependent interface
crossover
MESI modified exclusive shared invalid
MIPS millions of instructions per second
MM Management Module
MSM MegaRAID Storage Manager
NAS network-attached storage
NHS non-hot-swap
NIC network interface card
NMI non-maskable interrupt
NOS network operating system
NTLM NT LAN Manager
NUMA Nonuniform memory access
OGF Open Grid Forum
OS operating system
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PD problem determination
PDSG Problem Determination and Service
Guide
PE Preinstallation Environment
PFA Predictive Failure Analysis
PMI Project Management Institute
POST power-on self test
PS Personal System
PXE Preboot eXecution Environment
QPI QuickPath Interconnect
RAID redundant array of independent
disks
RAM
random access memory
RAS remote access services; row
address strobe; reliability,
availability, and serviceability
RDMA Remote Direct Memory Access
RETAIN Remote Electronic Technical
Assistance Information Network
RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RISC reduced instruction set computer
ROC RAID-on-card
ROM read-only memory
RPM revolutions per minute
RSA Remote Supervisor Adapter
RSS Receive-side scaling
RTC real-time clock
RTS request to send
SAC Special Administration Console
SAN storage area network
SAS Serial Attached SCSI
SATA Serial Advanced Technology
Attachment
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM static dynamic RAM
SED self-encrypting drive
SFP small form-factor pluggable
SLC Single Level Cell
SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLP Service Location Protocol
SMASH Systems Management Architecture
for Server Hardware
SMI scalable memory interconnect
SMP symmetric multiprocessing
SNMP Simple Network Management
Protocol
SOA service-oriented architecture
SOL Serial over LAN
SPORE ServerProven Opportunity Request
for Evaluation
SR short range
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SSCT Standalone Solution Configuration
To ol
SSD solid-state drive
SSH Secure Shell
SSIC System Storage Interoperation
Center
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
STG Server and Technology Group
TB terabyte
TCG Trusted Computing Group
TCO total cost of ownership
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
TDP thermal design power
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TOE TCP offload engine
TPM Trusted Platform Module
UDP user datagram protocol
UE Unrecoverable Error
UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface
UPS uninterruptible power supply
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB universal serial bus
UXSP UpdateXpress System Packs
UXSPI UpdateXpress System Packs
Installer
VFA Virtual Fabric Adapter
VLAN virtual LAN
VLP very low profile
VMFS virtual machine file system
VPD vital product data
VRM voltage regulator module
VSMP Virtual SMP
VT Virtualization Technology
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