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- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP): A protocol used to handle the allocation and administration of IP address space from a centralized server to devices on a network.
- Fibre Channel Protocol: A protocol used to perform Internet Protocol (IP) and Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) commands over a Fibre Channel network.
- File System: A storage resource that can be accessed through file sharing protocols such as SMB or NFS.
- Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP): A feature that relocates data to the most appropriate disk type depending on activity level to improve performance while reducing cost.
- FAST Cache: A feature that allows Flash drives to be configured as a large capacity secondary cache for the Pools on the system.
- Internet SCSI (iSCSI): A networking standard that provides a mechanism for accessing block-level data storage over network connections.
- Logical Unit Number (LUN): A block-level storage device that can be shared out using a protocol such as iSCSI.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server: A file-level storage server used to host file systems. A NAS Server is required to create file systems that use SMB or NFS shares, as well as VMware NFS Datastores and VMware Virtual Volumes (File).
- Network File System (NFS): An access protocol that allows data access from Linux and UNIX hosts on a network.
- Pool: A repository of drives from which storage resources such as LUNs and file systems can be created.
- REpresentational State Transfer (REST) API: A lightweight communications architecture style that enables the execution of discrete actions against web services.
- Server Message Block (SMB): A network file sharing protocol, sometimes referred to as CIFS, used by Microsoft Windows environments. SMB is used to provide access to files and folders from Windows hosts on a network.
- Snapshot: A point-in-time view of data stored on a storage resource. A user can recover files from a snapshot, restore a storage resource from a snapshot, or provide access to a host.
- Software Defined Storage: A storage architecture where the software storage stack is decoupled from the physical storage hardware.
- Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM): Using storage policies to dictate where a VM will be stored, as opposed to choosing a datastore manually.
- Storage Processor (SP): A storage node that provides the processing resources for performing storage operations and for servicing I/O between storage and hosts.
- Unisphere: An HTML5 user interface that is used to manage Dell Unity systems.
- Unisphere Command Line Interface (UEMCLI): An interface that allows a user to perform tasks on the storage system by typing commands instead of using the user interface.
- Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA): A storage node that runs as a virtual machine instead of on purpose-built hardware.
- Virtual Volumes (vVols): A VMware storage framework which allows VM data to be stored on individual Virtual Volumes. This allows for data services to be applied at a VM-granularity level while using Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM).
- vSphere API for Array Integration (VAAI): A VMware API that allows storage-related tasks to be offloaded to the storage system.
- vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA): A VMware API that provides additional insight about the storage capabilities in vSphere.