Users Guide

Table 1. System requirements (continued)
Component Minimum version required
OS Microsoft Windows Server 2019
VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
Terminology
Table 2. Terminology
Terminology Description
App-direct mode (AD) Persistent memory is accessed directly by applications as
byte-addressable memory.
CLI Intel command-line interface in UEFI or Linux environment
PMem Intel Optane persistent memory
GiB
Gibibyte
1 GiB = 1024 MiB
GB
Gigabyte
1 GB = 1000 MB
iMC Integrated Memory Controller
Interleave Set Contiguous App-direct mode capacity that is created by
interleaving the persistent capacity of one or more PMems.
x1 (by one) Interleave Interleave set that includes App-direct capacity from
only one PMem pronounced "by one." This is essentially
"Noninterleaved"
PM, PMem Persistent Memory
Memory Mode (MM) RDIMM or LRDIMM becomes cache for nonpersistent PMems.
MiB
Mibibyte
1 MiB = 1024 KB = 1048576 bytes
MB
Megabyte
1 MB = 1000 KB = 1000000 bytes
Namespace A persistent memory device that is made available in the file
system.
TiB
Tebibyte
1 TiB = 1024 GiB
TB
Terabyte
1 TB = 1000 GB
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