How to use the HP-UX Portable Image Tool for Integrity fluid cross-technology moves

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Acronym Definition
CMS Central Management Station
CSO Checksum Offload
DLPI Data Link Provider Interface
EFI Extensible Firmware Interface
ESI EFI State Information–special format on legacy zx2 blades that contains EFI variable store and some
non-volatile information from the blade
GIO General Input Output. Refers to the generic module in the I/O subsystem. The kernel interfaces with
the I/O subsystem through this module.
HBA Host Bus Adapter
HDM Hardware Driver Module
ILAN Infrastructure LAN
IOI HP-UX IO infrastructure. Its components such as: GIO (General IO), WSIO (Work Station IO),
OL infrastructure, IO Commands, LibIO and Driver products such as: Async disk, Ramdisk,
Partition Filter, Tape, and Changer Drivers.
KRS Kernel Registry Services is a kernel-specific mechanism that facilitates the maintenance of structured
data. Subsystems within the kernel can use KRS to maintain static or dynamic data. This data can be
either volatile or persistent across system reboot.
LAN Local Area Network
LS Logical Server
LSM Logical Server Manager
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
NIC Network Interface Card
NPIV N-Port ID Virtualization
NVRAM Non Volatile Random Access Memory
P2V Physical to Virtual Machine
PPA Physical Point of Attachment. It is an instance number of the NIC that is involved in sending and
receiving of data. When lanscan is performed, under the “Net-Interface” column of the results, each
instance of the device is listed with its name immediately followed (no spaces in between) by its PPA.
The number listed for the PPA is the instance number of the device.
TSO TCP Segmentation Offload
V2P Virtual Machine to Physical
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VMM Virtual Machine Manager
VMSAN Virtual Machine Storage Area Network
VNIC Virtual NIC