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acronyms
acronyms from cloud computing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| KVM | Kernel-based Virtual Machine |
| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System |
| BMC | Baseboard Management Controller |
| B/S | browser/server architecture |
| C/S | client/server architecture |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| iBMC | Huawei Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller |
| IPMI | Intelligent Platform Management Interface |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failure |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| FC | Fibre Channel |
| FCIP | Fibre Channel over IP |
| FCoE | Fibre Channel over Ethernet |
| iFCP | Internet Fibre Channel Protocol |
| iSCSI | Internet Small Computer System Interface |
| IPFC | IP over Fiber Channel |
| IOPS | Input/Output per second |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| VLSM | Variable Length Subnet Mask |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface |
| VMM | Virtual Machine Monitor |
| CBT | Changed Block Tracking |
| CNA | Compute Node Agent |
| VRM | Virtual Resource Management |
| DRS | Dynamic Resource Scheduling |
| DVS | Distributed Virtual Switch |
| AD | Active Directory |
| AUS | AccessAgent Update Server |
| DNS | Domain Name Server |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| HDA | Huawei Desktop Agent |
| HDC | Huawei Desktop Controller |
| HDP | Huawei Desktop Protocol |
| Citrix ICA | Citrix Independent Computing Architecture |
| IDV | Intelligent Desktop Virtualization |
| ITA | IT Adapter |
| PCoIP | PC over IP, a virtual desktop protocol jointly developed by VMware and Teradid. |
| RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol (Microsoft) |
| SC | Software Client |
| SPICE | Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (Red Hat) |
| TC | Thin Client |
| TCM | Thin Client Management |
| vAG | Virtual Access Gateway |
| VDI | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
| vLB | Virtual Load Balancer |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| WI | Web Interface |
| ARM | Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computing Machines |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| OS | Operating System |
| OU | Organization Unit |
| PTR | Pointer Record |
| vNIC | Virtual Network Interface Card |
| SID | Security Identifiers |
| VNC | Virtual Network Console |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| DevOps | Development and Operations |