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AC alternating current
ACPI advanced control and power interface
APIC advanced programmable interrupt
controller
ASM Advanced System Management
ASR Automatic Server Restart
ATS Advanced Technical Support
BASP Broadcom Advanced Server Program
BI business intelligence
BIOS basic input/output system
CCA Citrix Certified Administrator
CD-ROM compact disk read only memory
CEC central electronic complex
CIM Common Information Model
CPU central processing unit
CRM customer relationship management
DDR double data rate
DDS Digital Data Storage
DIMM dual inline memory module
DLT Digital Linear Tape
DOS disk operating system
DP dual processor
ECC error checking and correcting
EE Enterprise Edition
EMEA Europe, Middle East, Africa
ER enterprise rack
ERP enterprise resource planning
ESCON enterprise systems connection
ESS Enterprise Storage Server
FC Fibre Channel
FRU field replaceable unit
GA general availability
Abbreviations and acronyms
GB gigabyte
GBps gigabytes per second
Gbps gigabits per second
HA high availability
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
HBA host bus adapter
HCL hardware compatibility list
HTTP Hypertext Transmission Protocol
I/O input/output
IBM International Business Machines
Corporation
IBS International Business Systems
ID identification
IEC International Engineering Consortium
IIS Internet Information Services
IP Internet Protocol
ISP Internet service provider
IT information technology
KB kilobyte
LAN local area network
LED light emitting diode
LPAR logical partition
LTO Linear Tape Open
MAC media access control
MB megabyte
MCNE Master Certified Novell Engineer
MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MP multiprocessor
MPA Management Processor Assistant
MSCS Microsoft Cluster Service
NAS Network Attached Storage
NBI NetWare Bus Interface