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== A == | == A == | ||
* '''AD''' - Active Directory | * '''AD''' - Active Directory | ||
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* '''VPN''' - Virtual Private Network | * '''VPN''' - Virtual Private Network | ||
* '''VRF''' - Virtual Routing and Forwarding, used to provide selective/conditional routing | * '''VRF''' - Virtual Routing and Forwarding, used to provide selective/conditional routing | ||
* '''VSS''' - Volume Shadow Service, Microsoft OS service that creates quiesced disks (aka snapshots) | |||
== W == | == W == | ||
* '''WAN''' - Wide Area Network | * '''WAN''' - Wide Area Network | ||
Revision as of 07:31, 19 August 2010
A
- AD - Active Directory
- AP - Asia Pacific
B
- BCS - British Computer Society
- BGP - Border Gateway Protocol, a routing protocol
- BSOD - Blue Screen of Death, as seen on Windows servers
C
- CMDB - Configuration Management Database
- CRAC - Computer Room Air-Conditioning
D
- DCE - Data Communications Equipment, eg modem
- DTE - Data Termination Equipment, eg router
E
- EMEA - Europe, Middle-East, Asia
F
- FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name, eg
vwiki.sandfordit.com
as opposed tovwiki
- FTP - File Transfer Protocol, uses TCP 20 and 21
G
- GPO - Group Policy Object
H
- HBA - Host Bus Adapter
I
- IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol, mailbox access protocol
- IP - Internet Protocol
- iSCSI - IP Small Computer Serial Interface, SCSI over IP
- ISEB - Information Systems Examinations Board
- ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
J
- JBOD - Just a Bunch of Disks
K
L
- LAN - Local Area Network
- LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- LDS - Lightweight Directory Services
M
- MAN - Metropolitan Area Network, somewhere between a LAN and a WAN, for example connecting buildings within a localised area
- MPLS - Multi Protocol Label Switch(ing)
- MSCS - Microsoft Clustering Services
N
- NAS - Network Attached Storage, storage that's available via a network
- NTP - Network Time Protocol, reliable time sync protocol, uses UDP 123
O
- OSPF - Open Shortest Path First, dynamic routing protocol
P
- PSOD - Purple Screen of Death, as seen on ESX servers
- PVLAN - Private VLAN, VLANs over VLANs
Q
R
- RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol
- RIP - Route Information Protocol, old school routing protocol
- RSS - Really Simple Syndication, news feed protocol
S
- SAN - Storage Area Network, architecture for connecting systems to centralised storage
- SCOM - System Centre Operations Manager, Microsoft monitoring and operations product
- SCSI - Small Computer Serial Interface
- SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, email message delivery protocol, uses TCP 25
- SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol, polls use UDP 161, traps use UDP/TCP 162
- SQL - Structure Query Language
- SSH - Secure Shell, used to access network devices securely over TCP 22
T
- TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
- TFTP - Trivial FTP, lightweight FTP using UDP 69
U
- UPS - Uninterruptable Power Supply
- UUID - Universally Unique ID
V
- VIC - (VMware) Virtual Infrastructure Client
- VIM - Virtual Infrastructure Manager, old name for VMware vCentre
- VLAN - Virtual LAN, allows different networks to be carried across the same Ethernet, differentiated by 802.1Q tags
- VMDK - Virtual Machine Disk file, a VMware virtual machine's virtual hard drive file
- VMFS - Virtual Machine File System, VMware's storage format for virtual machines to run on
- VNC - Virtual Network Computer, superior remote desktop application
- VPN - Virtual Private Network
- VRF - Virtual Routing and Forwarding, used to provide selective/conditional routing
- VSS - Volume Shadow Service, Microsoft OS service that creates quiesced disks (aka snapshots)
W
- WAN - Wide Area Network