Acronyms

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W

A

ACL

Access Control List

ACS

Automated Cartridge System

ACSLS

Automated Cartridge System Library Software

ACSSA

ACS System Administrator (StorageTek)

AD

Microsoft Active Directory

ADIC

Advanced Digital Information Corporation

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AIX

The IBM Advanced Interactive eXecutive operating system

AML

Automated Mixed-Media Library

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Programming Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

A-SIS

Advanced Single Instance Storage

ASM

Automated Storage Management

ATL

  1. Automated Tape Library

  2. Active Template Library

AVB

Agentless VMware Backup

B

BLB

Binary Large Object

BLI

Block Level Incremental

BMR

Bare Metal Recovery

C

CA

Certificate Authorities

CAP

Cartridge Access Port

CBT

Change Block Tracking

CCMS

Computer Center Management System

CCR

Cluster Continuous Replication

CDOT

Clustered Data ONTAP

CIFS

Common Internet File System

CSI

Client System Interface

CSV

  1. Clustered Shared Volumes

  2. Comma Separated Value

D

DAG

Database Availability Group

DAOS

Domino Attachment and Object Service

DAR

Direct Access Recovery

DAS

Direct Attached Storage

DFS

Distributed File System

DGUX

Data General UNIX

DHCP

Dynamic Host Communication Protocol

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

DLT

Digital Linear Tape

DMS

Documentation Management Services

DNS

Domain Name System

DOM

Domain

DOS

Disk Operating System

DOSS

DPX Open Storage Server

DR

Disaster Recovery

DSR

Dissimilar Restore

E

EDB

Exchange Database

EE

Enterprise Edition

EEE

Enterprise-Extended Edition

EFS

Encrypting File System

EMBR

DPX Exchange Mailbox Recovery

EOJ

End Of Job

ESC

Enhanced Security Configuration

F

FAS

Fibre-Attached Storage

FV

Full Virtualization

G

GPT

GUID Partition Table

GUI

Graphical User Interface

GUID

Global Unique Identifier

H

HBA

Host Bus Adapter

HP-UX

Hewlett Packard UNIX

HSM

Hierarchical Storage Management

I

IA

Instant Access

IBM 3494

IBM Magstar 3494 Tape Library

IIS

Internet Information Services

IP

Internet Protocol

IPX

Internetwork Packet Exchange

iSCSI

Internet Small Computer System Interface

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

IV

Instant Virtualization

J

JDBC

Java Database Connectivity

JRE

Java Runtime Environment

K

KB

Knowledge Base

KMS

Knowledge Management System

L

LAN

Local Area Network

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LIF

Logical Interface

LMU

Library Management Unit

LSM

Library Storage Module

LTO

Linear Tape Open

LUN

Logical Unit Number

LVM

Logical Volume Management

M

MAC

Media Access Control

MML

Media Management Layer

MOSS

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

MTA

Message Transfer Agent

N

NAS

Network Attached Storage

NCF

NetWare Control File

NCS

Micro Focus Clustering Services

NDMP

Network Data Management Protocol

NDS

Micro Focus Directory Services

NFS

Network File System

NIC

Network Interface Controller

NIS

NetWare Installation Services

NOSB

NetApp Open Systems Backup

NSS

Micro Focus Storage System

NTFS

NT File System

O

OES

Open Enterprise Server

OSSV

Open System SnapVault

P

P2V

Physical to Virtual

PNL

Panel

PO

Post Office

POA

Post Office Agent

PXE

Pre-boot Execution Environment

Q

QoS

Quality of Service

qtree

Quota Tree

R

RAC

Real Application Clusters

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RC

Return Code

RDB

Recovery Database (Exchange)

RDM

Raw Device Mapping

ReFS

Resilient File System

RHEL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RMAN

Recovery Manager (Oracle)

RRP

Rapid Return to Production

RSG

Recovery Storage Group (Exchange)

RSM

Removable Storage Manager

RSS

Remote Storage Service

S

SAN

Storage Area Network

SAPDBA

SAP Database Administrator

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SDLC

Scalar Distributed Library Controller

SGI

Silicon Graphics International (IRIX)

SIDF

System Independent Data Format

SIS

Single Instance Storage

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SLDM

Solaris Logical Disk Manager

SLES

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SMDR

Storage Management Date Requester

SMIT

System Management Interface Tool

SMTape

SnapMirror-to-Tape

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNIA

Storage Networking Industry Association

SNMP

Simple Network Monitoring Protocol

SPF

System Protected Files

SPOR

DPX SharePoint Object Recovery

SQL

Structured Query Language

SRM

Storage Resource Manager

SSI

Storage Server Interface

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SSO

Single Sign-On

SSP

Shared Service Provider

SSPRODIR

DPX Product Directory

SVM

Storage Virtual Machine

SYSADMIN

System Administrator

T

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TLS

Transport Layer Security

TNS

Transparent Network Substrate

TSA

Target Service Agents

TTY

Teletype

U

UEFI

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

UFS

UNIX File System

V

V2P

Virtual to Physical

VADP

vStorage APIs for Data Protection

VC

Virtual Center

VD

Virtual Desktop

VG

Volume Group

VM

Virtual Machine

VMFS

Virtual Machine File System

VMDK

Virtual Machine Disk

VSS

Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service

VTL

Virtual Tape Library

VTOC

Virtual Table of Contents

VxFS

Veritas File System

VxVM

Veritas Volume Manager

W

WAN

Wide Area Network

WMI

Windows Management Instrumentation

WS

Web Server

WSPN

Web Server Port Number