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The following table provides definitions for some key terms that are used in this document.
Term | Definition |
AWS | Amazon Web Services |
AMI | Amazon Machine Images |
ASM | Automatic Storage Management |
AZ | Availability Zone |
EBS | Elastic Block Storage |
EC2 | Elastic Cloud Computing |
HCI | Hyperconverged Infrastructure |
IOPS | Input/Output Operations per Second |
NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express |
OLTP | Online Transaction Processing |
RHEL | Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
SAN | Storage Area Network |
SDS | Software Defined Storage |
SDC | Software Defined Client |
SLOB | Silly Little Oracle Benchmark |
VPC | Virtual Private Cloud |