Installation and Upgrade Guide

Operating
Environment
See OE.
Operating
Environment
DVD
See OE DVD.
operating system
CD
The CD containing the OpenVMS Alpha operating system and the installation and other
procedures.
See also operating system media, Operating Environment DVD.
operating system
media
The operating system CD or the OE DVD included with your OpenVMS distribution kit.
See also operating system CD, OE DVD.
partition A subset of the server hardware that includes processor, memory, and I/O resources on which
an operating system can run. This type of partitioning allows a single server to run an operating
system independently in each partition with isolation from other partitions.
See also cell, nPartition, server complex, virtual partition.
Pay per use See PPU.
Performance Data
Collector
See TDC.
platform A PCSI utility concept in which the OpenVMS operating system is kitted with options for
selected other products (for example, DECwindows Motif and networking products) so that
the user can opt to install all at once. Generically, a platform is the combination of physical
hardware and operating system on which a piece of management or application software runs.
POSSE Pre-OS System Environment. The HP implementation of EFI that extends the EFI Shell and EFI
Boot Manager to include additional features for managing hardware and system boot options.
See also EFI.
PPU Pay per use. Supported on cell-based Integrity servers and part of the HP Utility Pricing Solutions
program for customers who prefer leasing systems from HP Finance. Pay per use provides
CPU capacity as needed, basing payment on actual metered or monitored use of that capacity.
You acquire a particular hardware platform and number of processors, and are charged for
usage of the processors based on demand. PPU is intended for customers who would rather
lease the processors rather than purchasing them as would be done using Instant Capacity
(iCAP).
See also iCAP, TiCAP.
Providers See WBEM Providers for OpenVMS.
provisioning An HP SIM feature that allows you to install or upgrade OpenVMS on one or more servers in
the network simultaneously. HP SIM initiates the process and the installation or upgrade
automatically continues in the background.
See also HP SIM, VSE, WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management Services for OpenVMS).
rolling upgrade Each system disk in an OpenVMS Cluster is upgraded individually, allowing old and new
versions of the operating system to run together. Certain members of the cluster are available
for use while others are being upgraded.
See also concurrent upgrade.
satellite node A computer that is part of a local area cluster. A satellite node is downline loaded from a boot
server and then boots remotely from the system disk served by a disk server in the local area
cluster.
See also disk server, boot server.
scratch disk A blank disk or a disk with files you no longer need.
Secure Delivery Supported by CDSA, Secure Delivery uses public key and digital signature technology to
implement a system that provides OpenVMS users the ability to validate files from OpenVMS
and third-party OpenVMS vendors. The validation process involves authenticating the originator
and verifying the contents of a file. Secure Delivery is integrated into PCSI to automatically
ensure that software installed on OpenVMS was not tampered with prior to installation. Most
kits included on the OpenVMS distribution media (as of Version 8.3) have been signed using
Secure Delivery.
See also CDSA.
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