Technical Knowledge Base

Glossary of Terms

CHA (FED [Front End Director]) - Channel Adapters
8 front end ports (x2 8 GB/s)

DKA (BED [Back End Director]) - Disk Adapter
4 back end 6GB ports

MPPK (VSD [Virtual Storage Director]) - Micro Processor Package - front side
LM (local memory) 2 x 2GB
MCH - Memory Control HUB
Quad Core
- when installing a second pair you NEED either a HUB box or secondary SVP

CMA - [[CACHE]] Memory Adapter - Front side

- SM (1CA and 2CC [first pair installed])
- cache directory (0.5 GB)
- cache memory
- max size is 936 GB

ESW (GSW[Grid Switch]) - Express Switch - 24 PCIe ports 1GB/s full duplex
- 4 ports used for DKC
- 4 ports used for MP
- 8 for CMA
- 8 ports for DKA / CHA

SSW - SAS switch
6GB SAS back end, each cable 2 wide links - DKU

SVP - Service Processor

SSVP - Sub Service Processor

SIM - Service Information Message

LR (Data Excelerator) - Local Router

SM - Shared Memory
- config
- control unit (table for MainFrame)
- dynamic mapping tables (DMT) - dynamic provisioning
- data-data (bit maps for replication)
- parity info
- RTDS
- located on first pair of cache boards on DKC0
- Max. 28 GB/ board

HDU - Hard Disk Unit - 1/4 of a B4

PDEV - Physical Device (RAID group)

VDEV - Virtual Device (2.99 TB)

LDEV - Logical Device (stripes on a PDEV, LDEV can not be bigger then a VDEV)
- LUN presented to the host

Pool Page - 42 MB

HAM - High Availability Manager - Clustering 2 enterprise machines

RAID Group - Parity Group - Array Group - Error Checking and Correction (ECC)
- All mean the same thing

SBX - Small Box
- (SFF) Small Form Factor (2.5")

UBX - Universal Box
- 3.5"

DCR - Dynamic Cache Residency (RAM disk)

CVS - Custom Volume Size

SSID - Subsystem ID

CUDG - Control Unit Diagnostic

SCHIP - FW for SATA drives

DRR - Data Recovery and Regeneration