Abbreviations And Acronyms - IBM BladeCenter PS700 Technical Overview And Introduction

Abbreviations and acronyms

AC alternating current
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
AMM Advanced Management Module
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASIC application-specific integrated
circuit
ASMI Advanced System Management
Interface
BIOS basic input output system
BIST Built-in self-test
BOOTP boot protocol
CD-ROM compact disc read only memory
CEC central electronics complex
CEE Converged Enhanced Ethernet
CIF Customer Installed Features
CLI command-line interface
CMOS complementary metal oxide
semiconductor
CNA Converged Network Adapter
CPU central processing unit
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRU customer replaceable units
CSU Customer Set Up
DASD direct access storage device
DC domain controller
DDR Double Data Rate
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol
DIMM dual inline memory module
DLPAR Dynamic Logical Partition
DPM Distributed Power Management
DRAM dynamic random access memory
DSM disk storage module
ECC error checking and correcting
EED extended error data
EEH extended error handling
ELA error log analysis
ESA Electronic Service Agent
ETSI European Telecommunications
Standard Industry
FC Fibre Channel
FC-AL Fibre Channel-arbitrated loop
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FC-IP Fibre Channel Internet Protocol
FDMI Fibre Device Management
Interface
FFDC first-failure data capture
FIR fault isolation registers
FRU field replaceable unit
FSP flexible service processor
GB gigabyte
HBA host bus adapter
HDD hard disk drive
HEA Host Ethernet Adapter
HMC Hardware Management Console
HPC high performance computing
HSSM high speed switch module
HT Hyper-Threading
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
I/O input/output
IBA InfiniBand Architecture
IBM International Business Machines
IBTA InfiniBand Trade Association
ID identifier
IEEE Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
IOC IO controllers
IP Internet Protocol
IPL initial program load
IPTV Internet Protocol Television
ISA industry standard architecture
IT information technology
ITSO International Technical Support
Organization
IVE Integrated Virtual Ethernet
IVM Integrated Virtualization Manager
KVM keyboard video mouse
LAN local area network
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol
LED light emitting diode
LMB Logical Memory Block
LPAR logical partitions
LPM Live Partition Mobility
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