Standard terms, abbreviations, and acronyms
A
ASIC Application-specific integrated circuit
Auxiliary Any blade in a conjoined server other than the lowest-numbered blade
B
BBRAM Battery-backed RAM
BBWC Battery Backed Write Cache
BCH Boot console handler
C
CE Customer engineer
CEC Core electronics complex
CMC Corrected machine check
CPE Corrected platform errors
CRU Customer replaceable unit
CSR Control status registers
D
DDNS Dynamic domain name system
DHCP Dynamic host configuration protocol
DLL Dynamic-link library
DMA Direct memory access
DMDC Data multiplexer/demultiplexer controller
DNS Domain name system
E
EFI Extensible Firmware Interface
See also UEFI.
EMS Event management service
ESD Electrostatic discharge
F
FC Fibre Channel
FPL Forward progress log
FRU Field replaceable unit
H
HBA Host bus adapter
HPSP HP service partition
I
iLO 3 Integrated Lights-Out
IPF Itanium processor family
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