Compaq ProLiant 1600 Administrator's Manual page 174

Glossary-4 Compaq ProLiant Clusters HA/F100 and HA/F200 Administrator Guide
IP address
Load balancing
Logical disks
Mission-critical
Network interface
controller
NIC
Node
NTFS
Paging file
POST
Power-On
Self Test
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Preferred node
Proprietary
clustering system
Internet Protocol Address. A number that uniquely
identifies a host (server) so that computer entities can
locate and communicate with each other through the
transfer of packets. IP addresses can be statically or
dynamically assigned.
To balance the amount of work (processing)
undertaken by each node in a cluster.
The available logical disks that
Compaq Redundancy Manager can access displayed
in a tree hierarchy format.
Applications essential to business operations.
A board that allows a computer to be connected with a
network, and that works with the network operating
system to control the flow of information over the
network.
See Network Interface Controller
An individual server in a cluster.
Microsoft New Technology File System
organization system by which data is stored and
accessed in a Windows NT operating system.
A Windows NT paging file for virtual memory, called
PAGEFILE.SYS. The paging file is not necessarily a
single file; it can be a group of files stored in various
locations, across hard disks and partitions.
See Power-On Self-Test
A set of operations executed every time a system is
turned on that verifies components are present and
operating.
The principal server an application is configured to
operate from.
Traditionally a large, highly scalable UNIX and
mainframe system that is costly and challenging to set
up and maintain. Used only in mission-critical
applications that can afford no downtime.
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