Glossary
This glossary defines terminology, abbreviations, and acronyms in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC documentation.
A
- API
Application programming interface.
- ASN
Abstract Syntax Notation.
- auditreduce
Command to merge and select audit records from audit trail files (see the auditreduce(1M) man page).
- auditing
Tracking changes to the system and identifying the user who made the changes.
- authorization
A way in which to determine who has permission to perform tasks and access data by using Oracle Solaris OS rights.
B
- bge
Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet driver on Broadcom BCM57xx devices.
- BSM
Basic Security Module.
- bsmconv
Command to enable the BSM (see the bsmconv(1M) man page).
- bsmunconv
Command to disable the BSM (see the bsmunconv(1M) man page).
C
- CMT
Chip multithreading.
- compliance
Determining whether a system's configuration is in compliance with a predefined security profile.
- constraints
To the Logical Domains Manager, constraints are one or more resources you want to have assigned to a particular domain. You either receive all the resources you ask to be added to a domain or you get none of them, depending upon the available resources.
- control domain
A privileged domain that creates and manages other logical domains and services by using the Logical Domains Manager.
- CWQ
Control Word Queue; cryptographic unit.
D
- DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
- DIO
Direct I/O.
- DMA
Direct Memory Access is the ability to directly transfer data between the memory and a device (for example, a network card) without involving the CPU.
- DMP
Dynamic Multipathing (Veritas).
- domain
See logical domain.
- DPS
Data plane software.
- DR
Dynamic reconfiguration.
- drd
Oracle Solaris OS dynamic reconfiguration daemon for Logical Domains Manager (see the drd(1M) man page).
- DRM
Dynamic resource management.
- DS
Domain Services module.
- DVD
Digital versatile disc.
E
- EFI
Extensible firmware interface.
- ETM
Encoding Table Management module.
F
- FC_AL
Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop.
- FMA
Fault Management Architecture.
- fmd
Oracle Solaris OS fault manager daemon (see the fmd(1M) man page).
- format
Disk partitioning and maintenance utility (see the format(1M) man page).
- fmthard
Command to populate label on hard disks (see the fmthard(1M) man page).
G
- Gb
Gigabit.
- guest domain
Uses services from the I/O and service domains and is managed by the control domain.
- GLDv3
Generic LAN Driver version 3.
H
- hardening
Modifying Oracle Solaris OS configuration to improve security.
- hypervisor
Firmware layer interposed between the operating system and the hardware layer.
I
- I/O domain
Domain that has direct ownership of and direct access to physical I/O devices and that shares those devices to other logical domains in the form of virtual devices.
- IB
Infiniband.
- IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics.
- IDR
Interim Diagnostics Release.
- ILOM
Integrated Lights Out Manager, a dedicated system of hardware and supporting software that enables you to manage your server independently of the operating system.
- I/O
Input/output devices, such as internal disks and PCIe controllers and their attached adapters and devices.
- ioctl
Input/output control call.
- IPMP
Internet Protocol Network Multipathing.
K
- kaio
Kernel asynchronous input/output.
- KB
Kilobyte.
- KU
Kernel update.
L
- LAN
Local-area network.
- LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
- LDC
Logical domain channel.
- ldm
Logical Domains Manager utility (see the ldm(1M) man page).
- ldmd
Logical Domains Manager daemon.
- lofi
Loopback file.
- logical domain
A virtual machine comprised of a discrete logical grouping of resources, which has its own operating system and identity within a single computer system. Also called a domain.
- Logical Domains Manager
A CLI to create and manage logical domains and allocate resources to domains.
M
- MAC
Media access control address, which Logical Domains Manager can automatically assign or you can assign manually.
- MAU
Modular Arithmetic Unit.
- MB
Megabyte.
- MD
Machine description in the server database.
- mem, memory
Memory unit – default size in bytes, or specify gigabytes (G), kilobytes (K), or megabytes (M). Virtualized memory of the server that can be allocated to guest domains.
- metadb
Command to create and delete replicas of the Solaris Volume Manager metadevice state database (see the metadb(1M) man page).
- metaset
Command to configure disk sets (see the metaset(1M) man page).
- mhd
Command to perform multihost disk control operations (see the mhd(7I) man page).
- MIB
Management Information Base.
- minimizing
Installing the minimum number of core Oracle Solaris OS package necessary.
- MMF
Multimode fiber.
- MMU
Memory management unit.
- mpgroup
Multipathing group name for virtual disk failover.
- mtu
Maximum transmission unit.
N
- NIS
Network Information Services.
- NIU
Network Interface Unit (Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers).
- NTS
Network terminal server.
- NVRAM
Non-volatile random-access memory.
- nxge
Driver for an NIU 10Gb Ethernet adapter.
O
- OID
Object identifier, which is a sequence of numbers that uniquely identifies each object in a MIB.
- OVF
Open Virtualization Format.
P
- P2V
Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool. See Chapter 19, Oracle VM Server for SPARC Physical-to-Virtual Conversion Tool in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.3 Administration Guide.
- PA
Physical address.
- PCI
Peripheral component interconnect bus.
- PCIe
PCI EXPRESS bus.
- PCI-X
PCI Extended bus.
- pcpu
Physical CPU.
- physical domain
The scope of resources that are managed by a single Oracle VM Server for SPARC instance. A physical domain might be a complete physical system as is the case of supported SPARC T-series and SPARC S-series servers. Or, it might be either the entire system or a subset of the system as is the case of supported SPARC M-series servers.
- physical function
A PCI function that supports the SR-IOV capabilities as defined in the SR-IOV specification. A physical function contains the SR-IOV capability structure and is used to manage the SR-IOV functionality. Physical functions are fully featured PCIe functions that can be discovered, managed, and manipulated like any other PCIe device. Physical functions have full configuration resources, and can be used to configure or control the PCIe device.
- physio
Physical input/output.
- PICL
Platform Information and Control Library.
- picld
PICL daemon (see the picld(1M) man page).
- PM
Power management of virtual CPUs and memory.
- praudit
Command to print contents of an audit trail file (see the praudit(1M) man page).
- PRI
Priority.
R
- RA
Real address.
- RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, which enables you to combine independent disks into a logical unit.
- RPC
Remote Procedure Call.
S
- SAN
Storage Area Network.
- SASL
Simple Authentication and Security Layer.
- SAX
Simple API for XML parser, which traverses an XML document. The SAX parser is event-based and used mostly for streaming data.
- system controller (SC)
Also see service processor.
- SCSA
Sun Common SCSI Architecture.
- SCSI HBA
SCSI Host Bus Adapter.
- service domain
Logical domain that provides devices, such as virtual switches, virtual console connectors, and virtual disk servers, to other logical domains.
- SMA
System Management Agent.
- SMF
Service Management Facility.
- SMI
Structure of Management Information, which defines and groups managed objects for use by a MIB.
- SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol.
- service processor (SP)
The SP, also known as the system controller (SC), monitors and runs the physical machine.
- SP configuration
Name of the logical domain SP configuration that is saved on the service processor.
- SR-IOV
Single root I/O virtualization.
- SSH
Secure Shell.
- ssh
Secure Shell command (see the ssh(1) man page).
- sshd
Secure Shell daemon (see the sshd(1M) man page).
- SunVTS
Sun Validation Test Suite.
- svcadm
Manipulates service instances (see the svcadm(1M) man page).
T
- TLS
Transport Layer Security.
U
- UDP
User Diagram Protocol.
- unicast
Network communication that takes place between a single sender and a single receiver.
- uscsi
User SCSI command interface (see the uscsi(7I) man page).
- UTP
Unshielded twisted pair.
V
- var
Variable.
- VBSC
Virtual blade system controller.
- vcc, vconscon
Virtual console concentrator service with a specific port range to assign to guest domains.
- vcons, vconsole
Virtual console for accessing system-level messages. A connection is achieved by connecting to the vconscon service in the control domain at a specific port.
- vcpu
Virtual central processing unit. Each core in a server is represented as a virtual CPU.
- vdc
Virtual disk client.
- vdisk
A virtual disk is a generic block device associated with different types of physical devices, volumes, or files.
- vds, vdiskserver
Virtual disk server enables you to import virtual disks into a logical domain.
- vdsdev, vdiskserverdevice
Virtual disk server device is exported by the virtual disk server. The device can be an entire disk, a slice on a disk, a file, or a disk volume.
- virtual function
A PCI function that is associated with a physical function. A virtual function is a lightweight PCIe function that shares one or more physical resources with the physical function and with other virtual functions that are associated with the same physical function. Virtual functions are only permitted to have configuration resources for its own behavior.
- VNIC
Virtual network interface card, which is a virtual instantiation of a physical network device that can be created from the physical network device and assigned to a zone.
- vldc
Virtual logical domain channel service.
- vldcc
Virtual logical domain channel client.
- vnet
Virtual network device implements a virtual Ethernet device and communicates with other vnet devices in the system by using the virtual network switch (vswitch).
- vNTS
Virtual network terminal service.
- vntsd
Oracle Solaris OS virtual network terminal server daemon for domain consoles (see the vntsd(1M) man page).
- volfs
Volume Management file system (see the volfs(7FS) man page).
- vsw, vswitch
Virtual network switch that connects the virtual network devices to the external network and also switches packets between them.
- VTOC
Volume table of contents.
- VxDMP
Veritas Dynamic Multipathing.
- VxVM
Veritas Volume Manager.
X
- XFP
eXtreme Fast Path.
- XML
Extensible Markup Language.
- XMPP
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.
Z
- ZFS
Zettabyte File System.
- zpool
ZFS storage pool (see the zpool(1M) man page).
- ZVOL
ZFS Volume Emulation Driver.