The following table provides definitions for some of the terms that are used in this document.
Term | Definition |
AC | (Voltage) Alternating Current |
ADMS | Active Directory Migration Services |
AE | Account Executive |
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
ATT&CK | Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge |
BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
BOSS | Boot-Optimized Storage System |
BTU | British Thermal Unit |
C | Centigrade |
CapEx | Capital Expense |
CAT | Category (Rating) |
CC | Control Center |
CIP | Critical Infrastructure Protection |
CLI | Command Line Interface |
CNSA | Commercial National Security Algorithm |
CPU | Central Processing Unit |
D | Depth (Measurement) |
DAN | Doubly Attached Node |
DER | Distributed Energy Resources |
DL | Deep Learning |
DMZ | Demilitarized Zone |
DNP3 | Distributed Network Protocol 3 |
DNS | Domain Name Service |
DR | Disaster Recovery |
DRS | Distributed Resources Scheduler |
DVD | Dell Validated Design |
ECS | Edge Compute Stack |
EGW | (Dell Technologies) Edge Gateway |
EMS | Energy Management Services |
ESXi | ESX integrated |
EV | Electric Vehicle |
F | Fahrenheit |
FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standards |
FT | Fault Tolerance |
GB | Giga-Byte |
GbE | Gigabit Ethernet |
GOOSE | Generic Object Oriented Substation Event |
GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
H | Height (Measurement) |
HA | High Availability |
HCI | Hyper-Converged Infrastructure |
HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
HMI | Human Machine Interface |
HT | Hyper-Threading |
HTTP | Hyper Text Transport Protocol |
HTTPS | Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure |
IACS | Industrial Automation Control System |
ICS | Industrial Control System |
iDRAC | Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
IED | Intelligent Electronic Device |
IED | International Electrotechnical Commission |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IoT | Internet of Things |
IP | Internet Protocol |
ISA | International Society of Automation |
ISV | Independent Software Vendor |
IT | Information Technology |
KB | Kilo-Byte |
KG | (Weight) Kilogram |
LACP | Link Aggregation Control Protocol |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LB | (Weight) Pound |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LDAPS | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol over Transport Layer Security |
LTSC | Long Term Servicing Channel |
MB | Mega-Byte |
MIL-STD | Military Standard |
ML | Machine Learning |
MM | (Distance) Millimeter |
MMS | Manufacturing Message Specification |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
NEBS | Network Equipment-Building System |
NERC | North American Electric Reliability Corporation |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express |
OPC-UA | Open Library Environment Process Control Unified Architecture |
OpEx | Operating Expense |
OS | Operating System |
OT | Operations Technology |
OWASP | Open Worldwide Application Security Project |
PCAP | Packet Capture |
PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
PLC | Programmable Logic Controller |
PRP | Parallel Redundancy Protocol |
PSU | Power Supply Unit |
PTP | Precision Time Protocol |
QA | Quality Assurance |
RAID | Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks Controller |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
RJ | Registered Jack |
RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
RS | Recommended Standard |
RSTP | Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol |
RTO | Recovery Time Objective |
RTU | Remote Terminal Unit |
SAS | Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface |
SAS | Shared Access Signature |
SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
SC | System Consultant |
SCADA | Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition |
SCP | Secure Copy |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interchange |
SCV | Secured Component Verification |
SEKM | Secure Enterprise Key Management |
SFP | Small Form-Factor Pluggable |
SI | System Integrator |
SIEM | Security Information and Event Management |
SL | Service Level |
SL-A | Security Level Achieved |
SL-C | Security Level Compatibility |
SL-T | Security Level Target |
SLA | Service Level Agreement |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
SS | Substation |
SSH | Secure Shell |
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol |
ToR | Top of Rack |
TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
U | (Rack) Unit |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
URL | Universal Resource Locator |
vDS | Virtual Distribution Switch |
VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
VLT | Virtual Link Trunking |
VM | Virtual Machine |
vSAN | Virtual Storage Area Network |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
W | Width (Measurement) |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
XML | eXtensible Markup Language |