Oracle^® MiniCluster S7-2 Administration Guide

Glossary

A

ASR

Auto Service Request. A feature of Oracle or Sun hardware that automatically opens service requests when specific hardware faults occur. ASR is integrated with MOS and requires a support agreement. See also MOS.

C

compute server

Shortened name for the SPARC server, a major component of MiniCluster.

G

GB

Gigabyte. 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes.

GbE

Gigabit Ethernet.

H

HMAC

Hashed Message Authentication Code. An algorithm used to generate one-time passwords.

I

ILOM

See Oracle ILOM.

IPMI

Intelligent Platform Management Interface.

IPMP

IP network multipathing.

M

MOS

My Oracle Support.

N

NIC

Network interface card.

O

Oracle ASM

Oracle Automatic Storage Management. A volume manager and a file system that supports Oracle databases.

Oracle ILOM

Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager. Software on the SP that enables you to manage a server independently from the operating system.

OTP

A One-time Password. A MiniCluster administrator in the tenant admin role can enable two-factor authentication for a specific user.

P

POST

Power-on self-test. A diagnostic that runs when the compute server is powered on.

Q

QSFP

Quad small form-factor, pluggable. A transceiver specification for 10GbE technology.

R

RAC

Real Application Cluster.

S

SCAN

Single Client Access Name. A feature used in RAC environments that provides a single name for clients to access any Oracle Database running in a cluster. See also RAC.

SFP and SFP+

Small form-factor pluggable standard. SFP+ is a specification for a transceiver for 10GbE technology.

SGA

System global area.

SNMP

Simple Management Network Protocol.

SPARC server

A major component of SuperCluster that provides the main compute resources. Referred to in this documentation as compute server.

T

two-factor authentication

Strong authentication that is enforced with OTP.

Z

ZFS

A file system with added volume management capabilities. ZFS is the default file system in Oracle Solaris 11.