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The following table provides definitions for some of the terms that are used in this document.
Term | Definition |
S3 | The S3 protocol, or Simple Storage Service protocol, is a data storage system that provides a simple and scalable solution for storing and retrieving data in the cloud. |
Buckets | Buckets are object containers that are used to control access to objects. |
T-SQL | Transact Structure Query Language (SQL Language which is used to interact with relational databases) |
HCI | Hyper Converged Infrastructure |
VM | Virtual Machine |
CETAS | CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT |
OPENROWSET | can read from a datafile without loading the data into a target table. |
NVMe | Non Volatile Memory |
SDN | Storage defined Networking |
S2D | Storage Spaces Direct |
RDMA | Remote Direct Memory Access |
SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
OS | Operating System |
SSMS | SQL Server Management Studio |
.CSV | Comma Separated Value (file format) |
VHDs | Virtual hard disks |
VLT | Virtual Link Trunking |
LPIM | Lock Pages in Memory |
vCPU | virtual Central Processing Unit |
ReFS | Resilient File System |
RoCE | RDMA over Converged Ethernet |
ToR | Top-of-Rack |
WAC | Windows Admin Center |