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The following table provides definitions for some of the terms that are used in this document.
Term | Definition |
MDM | Meta Data Manager |
NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express |
NVMe/TCP | NVMe over TCP |
NQN | NVMe Qualified Name |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
PFxM | PowerFlex Manager |
RHEL | Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
SDC | Storage Data Client for PowerFlex |
SDS | Storage Data Server for PowerFlex |
SDT | Storage Data Target |
TOR | Top of Rack |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
YCSB | Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark |
Note: in this document, the terms compute and ESXi are used to represent interchangeably to represent compute nodes which are installed with the ESXi operating system.