Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM - Manual (Page 96)

Acronyms-4 Acronyms and Abbreviations
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM User and Reference Guide
NBU NetBackup (a VERITAS software product)
NEC National Electrical Code
NFS network file system
NIS network information service
NTP network time protocol
NVS nonvolatile storage
ODM Object Data Manager
OEM original equipment manufacturer
OFC open fibre control
ORM online read margin
OS operating system
PAV Parallel Access Volume
PB petabyte (see Convention for Storage Capacity Values )
PC personal computer system
PCB printed circuit board
PCI power control interface
P/DAS PPRC/dynamic address switching (IBM mainframe software function)
PDEV physical device
PDL Product Documentation Library
PG parity group
PPRC Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (an IBM mainframe host software function)
PS power supply
P-site primary site (Universal Replicator)
RAB RAID Advisory Board
RAID redundant array of independent disks
RAM random-access memory
RC reference code
RIO remote I/O
RISC reduced instruction-set computer
R-site remote site (Universal Replicator)
R/W read/write
S/390 IBM System/390 architecture
SAN storage-area network
SATA serial Advanced Technology Attachment standard
SCSI small computer system interface
SCP state-change pending
sec. second
seq. sequential
SFP small form-factor pluggable
SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc.
SI ShadowImage
SIM service information message
SIz ShadowImage for IBM z/OS
SLPR storage logical partition
SMA shared memory adapter
SMS System Managed Storage
SNMP simple network management protocol
SOM system option mode
SRA Storage Replication Adapter