Appendix A: Simplivity Terminology - SimpliVity OmniStack Installation And Maintenance Manual

Appendix A: SimpliVity terminology

The following table contains SimpliVity terms and definitions.
Term
Arbiter
cluster
failure domain
Federation
guest operating
system
host
legacy host
OmniCube host
OmniStack
Accelerator
OmniStack host
OmniStack software
Appendix A: SimpliVity terminology
Definition
Alternate name for the SimpliVity Arbiter. (See SimpliVity Arbiter.)
A collection of SimpliVity OmniStack hosts that share resources and provide
high availability and load-balancing services.
A collection of SimpliVity OmniStack hosts that serve as potential high
availability failover targets for each other for purposes of high availability and
disaster recovery.
A collection of SimpliVity OmniStack hosts and clusters managed in a single
globally-unified management domain.
The operating system that runs inside a virtual machine.
A generic term referring to either an OmniStack host or a legacy host.
A host that does not contain OmniStack software.
See OmniStack host.
A SimpliVity PCI card that provides non-volatile memory, accelerated
compression, and cryptographic hashing. The Accelerator card
communicates with the OmniStack software.
A host (server) containing an OmniStack Accelerator card that communicates
with the OmniStack software and some supported virtualization software. An
OmniStack host utilizes a dedicated virtual machine called the OmniStack
Virtual Controller, which runs the OmniStack software. (Previously referred to
as an OmniCube host.)
The SimpliVity software running on the OmniStack Virtual Controller.
(Previously referred to as an OmniCube software.)
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