Abbreviations And Acronyms - IBM x3850 X6 Planning And Implementation Manual

Abbreviations and acronyms

AC alternating current
ACID atomicity, consistency, isolation,
and durability
ACPI advanced control and power
interface
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AES-NI Advanced Encryption Standard
New Instructions
AMM Advanced Management Module
ANSI American National Standards
Institute
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller
ASU Advanced Settings Utility
BIOS basic input output system
BM bridge module
BMC Baseboard Management Controller
BTU British Thermal Unit
CD compact disk
CIM Common Information Model
CLI command-line interface
CMOS complementary metal oxide
semiconductor
CNA Converged Network Adapter
COM Component Object Model
CPU central processing unit
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRM Customer Relationship
Management
CRU customer replaceable units
CTO configure-to-order
DC domain controller
DCS Data Center Services
DCU data cache unit
DDR Double Data Rate
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol
DIMM dual inline memory module
DNS Domain Name System
DSA Dynamic System Analysis
DVD Digital Video Disc
DW data warehousing
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ECC error checking and correcting
EIA Electronic Industries Alliance
EMEA Europe, Middle East, Africa
EMS Emergency Messaging Service
ERP enterprise resource planning
ESA Electronic Service Agent
ETS Enhanced Technical Support
FC Fibre Channel
FDR fourteen data rate
FSM Flex System Manager
GB gigabyte
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GT Gigatransfers
GUI graphical user interface
HBA host bus adapter
HD high definition
HDD hard disk drive
HPC high performance computing
HS hot-swap
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HV high voltage
I/O input/output
IB/E InfiniBand/Ethernet
IBM International Business Machines
ID identifier
IEC International Electrotechnical
Commission
IMM integrated management module
IOPS I/O operations per second
IP Internet Protocol
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management
Interface
ISD IBM Systems Director
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
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