HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Update 1 Getting Started Guide

Glossary
active logical
server
A logical server that has been bound to both a managed system in HP Systems Insight Manager
and a workload, and is bound to specific storage. Active logical servers can be in one of two
states: powered on or powered off. An active logical server can be moved from one location to
another and its characteristics can be modified.
agent A program that regularly gathers information or performs some other service without the user's
immediate presence.
application A logically related set of processes active on a system (a running application) and/or a logically
related set of files on a machine disk (an installed application).
BladeSystem The HP product portfolio of blade form factor computing devices that provide versatile computing
configurations, integrated network connectivity, and power management capabilities. BladeSystem
options are available in both the Integrity and ProLiant product lines.
See also BladeSystem enclosure, BladeSystem Integrated Manager.
BladeSystem
enclosure
Hardware solution that provides a flexible selection of half- or full-size server blades and associated
components (such as integrated connectivity to storage and data networks, and shared power
subsystems) into a single unit.
See also BladeSystem Integrated Manager.
BladeSystem
Integrated
Manager
A software component in HP Systems Insight Manager that enables users to navigate the blade
servers, enclosure infrastructures, racks, and integrated switches in their BladeSystem environment
by way of pictorial and hierarchical tree representations.
callout icons Graphical icons that display in the right-hand corner of compartments or subcompartments.
Information callout icons show the system or workload attributes. Meter callout icons show
expanded information about the utilization meters that appear to the left of the icon. The utilization
meters display the recent utilization metrics for CPU, memory, disk, and LAN. See Matrix OE
visualization online help for explanation of icons appearing on the Visualization tab.
cell A circuit board that contains processors and memory, all controlled by a cell controller (CC). A
cell is the basic building block of an nPartition in a complex.
cell-based server A server in which all cores and memory are contained in cells, each of which can be assigned
for exclusive use by an nPartition. Each nPartition runs its own instance of an operating system.
CMS Central Management Server. A system in a server management domain that runs HP Systems
Insight Manager (HP SIM). All central operations within HP SIM are initiated from this system.
compartment An nPartition, virtual partition, virtual machine, or resource partition for which resources are
allocated by HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM).
Multiple compartments are grouped to form a shared resource domain (SRD). The compartments
all share the resources of the SRD. A compartment can be in only one SRD. Each compartment
holds a workload. gWLM manages each workload's resource allocation by adjusting the resource
allocation of its compartment.
On the Matrix OE Visualization tab, compartments are represented by color. You can select the
entire compartment or individual members within a compartment, then select a drop-down menu
item to operate on the selected item.
complex A complex includes one or more cabinets that are cabled together and all of the hardware
resources that they contain. A complex has a single service processor.
core The actual data-processing engine within a processor. A single processor might have multiple
cores, and a core might support multiple execution threads.
FSS group Fair-Share Scheduler group. A group of processes that has its CPU allocation managed by the
HP-UX Fair Share Scheduler. FSS groups allow you to allocate fractions of cores, rather than only
whole cores, to the processes in the group.
GiCAP HP Global Instant Capacity. Software that enables you to move usage rights for Instant Capacity
components within a group of servers.
See also iCAP, TiCAP.
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