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