Acronyms-4 Acronyms and Abbreviations
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM User and Reference Guide
NBU NetBackup (a VERITAS software product)
NEC
National Electrical Code
NFS
network file system
NIS
network information service
NTP
network time protocol
NVS
nonvolatile storage
ODM
Object Data Manager
OEM
original equipment manufacturer
OFC
open fibre control
ORM
online read margin
OS
operating system
PAV
Parallel Access Volume
PB petabyte (see Convention for Storage Capacity Values
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PC
personal computer system
PCB printed circuit board
PCI
power control interface
P/DAS
PPRC/dynamic address switching (IBM mainframe software function)
PDEV physical device
PDL
Product Documentation Library
PG parity group
PPRC
Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (an IBM mainframe host software function)
PS
power supply
P-site primary site (Universal Replicator)
RAB
RAID Advisory Board
RAID
redundant array of independent disks
RAM
random-access memory
RC
reference code
RIO remote I/O
RISC
reduced instruction-set computer
R-site remote site (Universal Replicator)
R/W
read/write
S/390
IBM System/390 architecture
SAN
storage-area network
SATA serial Advanced Technology Attachment standard
SCSI
small computer system interface
SCP
state-change pending
sec.
second
seq.
sequential
SFP small form-factor pluggable
SGI
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
SI
ShadowImage
SIM
service information message
SIz
ShadowImage for IBM z/OS
SLPR storage logical partition
SMA shared memory adapter
SMS
System Managed Storage
SNMP
simple network management protocol
SOM system option mode
SRA Storage Replication Adapter