Glossary

Definitions

DVA #

Dynamic Volume Aggregation

FC #

Fibre Channel

GB #

Gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes

GID #

Group ID

HBA #

Host Bus Adapter

I/O #

Input / Output

IQN #

iSCSI Qualified Name

iSCSI #

Internet SCSI

iSNS #

iSCSI Storage Name Service

LUN #

Logical Unit Number

LVM #

Logical Volume Manager

MPIO #

Multipath I/O

NAS #

Network Attached Storage

NIC #

Network Interface Card

OS #

Operating System

PITC #

Point In Time Copy

RAID #

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

SAN #

Storage Area Network

SCSI #

Small Computer Systems Interface

UID #

User ID

VMM #

Virtual Machine Monitor