The following table provides definitions for some of the terms that are used in this document:
Table 1. Terminology
Term | Description |
DR | Disaster Recovery |
DNS | Domain Name System |
FCI | Failover Cluster Instance |
GUID | Globally Unique Identifier |
HCI | Hyper Converged Infrastructure |
ITOM | IT Operations Management |
LCM | Life Cycle Management |
LUN | Logical Unit Number |
MDM | Meta Data Manager |
MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
RCG | Replication Consistency Group |
RCM | Release Certification Matrix |
RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
RDM | Raw Device Mapping |
SDC | Storage Data Client |
SDR | Storage Data Replicator |
SDS | Storage Data Server |
SSD | Solid-StateDrive |
SSMS | SQL Server Management Studio |
SVM | Storage Virtual Machine |
VMDK | VMware Virtual Machine Disk |
WSFC | Windows Server Failover Cluster |