Glossary
A
AMI Amazon Machine Images
ASASM Adaptive Security Appliance Services Module
ASR (Cisco) Aggregation Services Router
AWS Amazon Web Services
B
BCO BMC Capacity Optimization
BSA BMC Server Automation
BNA BMC Network Automation
BPPM BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management
C
CDP Continuous Data Protection
CLM BMC Cloud Lifecyle Management
CSA ZenOSS Cloud Service Assurance
CX-CS Configuration Server
CX-PS Process Server
D
DC data center
DML Definitive Media Library
DRaaS Disaster Recovery as a Service
DRE Data Redundancy Elimination
E
EH end host
F
FC Fibre Channel
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
G
GSLB Global Site Load Balancing
GSS Global Site Selector
H
HBA host bus adapter
I
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
ICS Integrated Compute Stack
IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second
L
LC linecard
M
MDS Multilayer Director Switch
MSP Managed Services Provider
MT master target
N
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NIC network interface card
O
OLTP online transaction processing
OOB out of band
OTV Overlay Transport Virtualization
P
P2V Physical to Virtual Server
PIN Place in the Network
R
RAID random array of integrated disks
RBAC role-based access control
RD route distinguisher
RDD round-robin database
RESTful Representational state transfer
RHI Route Health Injection
RM Resource Manager
RPO Recovery Point Objective
RR route reflector
S
SaaS Software as a Service
SAN Storage Area Network
si swap in
SLB Server Load Balancing
so swap out
SOI Service Offering Instance
SRM VMware Site Recovery Manager
T
TFO Transport Flow Optimization
U
UDP User Datagram Protocol
V
V2V (Zerto) Virtual to Virtual Server
VM virtual machine
VMDC Virtualized Multi-Tenant Data Center
VMDK Virtual Machine Disk
VMNIC VM Network Interface Card
VRF virtual routing and forwarding
VSG Virtual Security Gateway
vSLB Virtual Server Load Balancer
W
WAAS Wide Area Application Services
WAE Wide Area Application Engines
WAFL Write Anywhere File Layout
WLM Workload Manager
WOC WAN Optimization Controller
WWPN World Wide Port Name