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The following table provides definitions for some of the terms that are used in this document.
Table 1. Terminology
Term | Definition |
ASM | Automatic Storage Management |
API | Application Programming Interface |
AWR | Automatic Workload Repository |
AWS | Amazon Web Services |
AZ | Availability Zone |
CIFS | Common Internet File System |
DNS | Domain Name System |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
HCI | Hyperconverged Infrastructure |
IOPS | Input/output Operations per Second |
LACP | Link Aggregation Control Protocol |
LUN | Logical Unit Number |
MDM | Meta Data Manager |
MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
NAS | Network Attached Storage |
NDMP | Network Data Management Protocol |
NFS | Network File System |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
NVMe | Nonvolatile Memory express |
OCR | Oracle Cluster Registry |
OLTP | Online Transaction Processing |
OS | Operating System |
PFMC | PowerFlex Management Controller |
PTR | Pointer records |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
SDC | Storage Data Client |
SDS | Storage Data Server |
SFP | Small Form-factor Pluggable |
SLA | Service Level Agreement |
SLOB | Silly Little Oracle Benchmark |
SMB | Server Message Block |
SSD | Solid State Drives |
RAC | Real Application Clusters |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
VM | Virtual Machine |