Operating Environment Software Owner's manual

resource pool A group of physical and virtual resources managed by HP Virtual Server Environment. An
administrator controls resource utilization by allowing users access to resource pools.
RSCN See Registered State Change Notification.
Self-Service portal A web application that enables you to create infrastructure services from published templates.
You can view the available templates, select a template that meets your provisioning requirements,
and submit a service request.
server group A set of one or more servers that can be treated as a tier enabling the construction of a multi-tier
infrastructure service. The servers in a tier must be homogeneous, and must satisfy all group
attributes.
storage area
network (SAN)
A network (or subnetwork) that connects data storage devices with associated data servers. A
storage area network is typically part of an overall network of computing resources.
template A design blueprint that specifies the requirements for an infrastructure service in terms of server
groups, networks, storage, and contains customization points that use Operations Orchestration
workflows during the execution of a request.
Uniform Resource
Locator (URL)
Specifies where on the Internet/World Wide Web an identified computing resource is available
and the mechanism for retrieving it.
Universally Unique
Identifier (UUID)
A unique identifier used to enable distributed systems to uniquely identify information with
significant central coordination.
URL See Uniform Resource Locator.
user A user who creates infrastructure services by provisioning templates from a prioritized list of
resource pools and specifies the service lease period for the start and end of the overall service
through the Self-Service portal.
UUID See Universally Unique Identifier.
VC See Virtual Connect.
VCEM See Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager.
VI3 See Virtual Infrastructure 3.
Virtual Center VMware's enterprise-level virtualization management product.
Virtual Connect
(VC)
HP's hardware virtualization product, primarily for blade servers.
Virtual Connect
Enterprise
Manager (VCEM)
HP's enclosure-spanning hardware virtualization management software product: .
Virtual
Infrastructure 3
(VI3)
VMware's product suite of ESX Server 3.0 and VirtualCenter 2.0 software.
virtual interface An IP address that is used as the single network address to multiple clustered servers executing
an application package. A virtual interface is also known as a service IP.
Virtual Machine
Management
(VMM)
HP's virtualization management technology.
Virtual Server
Environment (VSE)
HP's virtualization systems and resources management product.
VMM See Virtual Machine Management.
VSE See Virtual Server Environment.
Windows Internet
Name Service
(WINS)
Microsoft's name server and service (similar to DNS for domain names) - mapping between host
names and network addresses.
WINS See Windows Internet Name Service.
90 Glossary