Specifications

Abbreviations and acronyms 391
ROM read-only memory
RPM Red Hat Package Manager
RSA Remote Supervisor Adapter
RSS receive-side scaling
RTE Remote Terminal Emulator
SAN storage area network
SAS Serial Attached SCSI
SATA Serial ATA
SCP System Control Process
SCSI Small Computer System
Interface
SDD Subsystem Device Driver
SDMC Systems Director
Management Console
SEA Share Ethernet Adapter
SFF small form factor
SFP small form-factor pluggable
SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server
SLI Service Level Interface
SMP symmetric multiprocessing
SMS System Management
Services
SMT station management
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management
Protocol
SOL Serial over LAN
SP service processor
SR short range
SRAM static RAM
SRM system resources manager
SSA serial storage architecture
SSD solid-state drive
SSH Secure Shell
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
STP Spanning Tree Protocol
SWMA Software Maintenance
Agreement
TB terabyte
TCB Transport Control Block
TCG Trusted Computing Group
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TL technology level
TPM Trusted Platform Module
TPMD thermal and power
management device
TSM Tivoli Storage Manager
TTY teletypewriter
TXT text
UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface
UL Underwriters Laboratories
UPS uninterruptible power supply
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB universal serial bus
VAC volts alternating current
VGA video graphics array
VIOS Virtual I/O Server
VLAG Virtual link aggregation group
VLAN virtual LAN
VLP very low profile
VM virtual machine
VNC Virtual Network Computing
VPD vital product data
VPI virtual path identifier
VSP Virtual Service Providers
WPAR workload partition
WW world wide
WWPN World Wide Port Name
XML Extensible Markup Language