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Term Definition
CFS Cluster File System: A file system that is available for concurrent read and write access to multiple or
all nodes of a cluster.
CVM Veritas Cluster Volume Manager: Enables multiple cluster nodes to access volumes concurrently.
DCOE HP-UX 11i v3 Data Center Operating Environment: Business critical virtualization built in—the ideal
offering for customers who are consolidating or building an infrastructure for the future. The Data
Center OE integrates the additions from the Base OE, Virtual Server Environment Suite, as well as
existing mission-critical HA technologies. All the products contained in the MCOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE
can be found in the Data Center OE.
DMP Dynamic Multi-Pathing: Active/active storage path failover solution from Veritas.
DST Dynamic Storage Tiering (formerly known as Quality of Storage Service): Allows less often used files
to be stored on less critical/expensive storage while still providing availability when needed.
DTS Disaster Tolerant Solutions: Multi data center HP Serviceguard configurations that protect against loss
of resource by failing over to a secondary site center.
ECMT Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: A collection of Serviceguard integration templates for popular
third-party applications.
EOE HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise Operating Environment (OE): Designed for database application servers and
logic servers, this OE contains the HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation OE bundles and additional applications
such as HP GlancePlus Pak to enable an enterprise-level server.
FOE HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation OE: Designed for the demands of web servers, content servers, and front-
end servers, this OE includes applications such as HP-UX Web Server Suite, Java™, and Mozilla
Application Suite.
HAOE HP-UX 11iv3 High Availability Operating Environment: Constructed to deliver high levels of
application and database availability, data protection, and disaster tolerance, the High Availability
OE provides Serviceguard’s proven clustering solution, HA toolkits, and contains products in the Base
OE, as well as all those found in the Enterprise OE.
HP-UX 11i v2 HP-UX 11i version 2: First common operating system for HP 9000 and Integrity servers; minimum
operating system release for HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite.
HP-UX 11i v3 HP-UX 11i version 3: Designed for the rigors of mission-critical applications with the integrated
capabilities to meet the high service-level expectations of end users efficiently as your business grows
and changes.
ISV Independent software vendor.
LVM Logical Volume Manager: The default HP-UX volume manager, which is a lower cost solution, having
compatibility between releases, and supporting Disaster Tolerance and Serviceguard with tight
integration with HP-UX and file systems.
MCOE HP-UX 11i v2 Mission Critical OE: Designed for the large, powerful back-end application servers and
database servers that access customer files and handle transaction processing, this OE contains the
Enterprise OE bundles, plus applications such as Serviceguard and HP-UX Workload Manager to
enable a mission-critical server.
SG HP Serviceguard: The A.11.17 version is the first release of HP Serviceguard to support the HP
Storage Management Suite bundles, including CFS, for HP 9000 and HP Integrity systems.
SGeRAC HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) : A software package that
enables you to integrate Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g RAC into HP Serviceguard.
SGCFS HP Serviceguard Cluster File System: An integrated offering of Serviceguard with the cluster file
system that provides availability and improved manageability for business-critical environments.
SGCFSO HP Serviceguard Cluster File System for Oracle: An integrated offering of Serviceguard with the
cluster file system that provides availability and improved manageability for Oracle single instance
database environments.
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