This table below lists abbreviations, and acronyms specific to this document.
Table 1-2 Key Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acronym/Abbreviation/Term | Definition |
5G NF | 3GPP 5G Network Function |
BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
CLI | Command Line Interface |
CNE | Cloud Native Environment |
DB | Database |
DBMS | Database Management System |
DHCP(D) | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
DNS | Domain Name Server |
EBIPA | Enclosure Bay IP Addressing |
FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain name |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
HP | Hewlett Packard |
HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
iLO | HPE Integrated Lights-Out Management System |
IP | Internet Protocol; may be used as shorthand to refer to an IP layer 3 address. |
IPv4 | Internet Protocol version 4 |
IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 |
IRF | Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) is a proprietary software virtualization technology developed by H3C (3Com). Its core idea is to connect multiple network devices through physical IRF ports and perform necessary configurations, and then these devices are virtualized into a distributed device. |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization; typically used as shorthand to refer to an ISO 9660 optical disk file system image |
KVM | Keyboard, Video, Mouse |
K8s | Shorthand alias for Kubernetes |
MAC | Media Access Control address |
MBE | Minimal Bootstrapping Environment |
NFS | Network File System |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
OA | HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator |
OAM | Operations, Administration, Maintenance |
OCCNE | Oracle Communications Signaling, Network Function Cloud Native Environment |
OS | Operating System |
OSDC | Oracle Software Download Center |
PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
POAP | PowerOn Auto Provisioning |
PXE | Pre-Boot Execution Environment |
RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
RBSU | ROM Based Setup Utility |
RMS | Rack Mount Server |
RPM | Red Hat Package Manager |
SAS | Serial Attached SCSI |
SSD | Solid State Drive |
TAR | Short for Tape Archive, and sometimes referred to as tarball, a file that has the TAR file extension is a file in the Consolidated Unix Archive format. |
TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
TLD | Top Level Domain |
ToR | Top of Rack - Colloquial term for the pair of Cisco 93180YC-EX switches |
UEFI | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
VM | Virtual Machine |
VSP | Virtual Serial Port |
YUM | Yellowdog Updator, Modified (a Linux Package Manager) |