HP OpenVMS 8.x manual Efi

DSSI-only cluster	A computer system consisting of several computers attached to a Digital Storage System
	Interconnect (DSSI) through which it communicates with other computers in the cluster. These
	computers share a single file system.
	See also DSSI, CI-only cluster.
EFI	Extensible Firmware Interface. The interface between HP Integrity server operating system and
	system firmware enabling you to perform such tasks as configuring the firmware and controlling
	the booting environment. EFI is the Intel specification of an interface between firmware and
	hardware.
	See also BMC, MP, POSSE.
encryption	A process implemented for data confidentiality that converts sensitive or otherwise private
	data to an unintelligible form called cipher-text. Decryption reverses the process, taking the
	unintelligible cipher-text and converting the data back into its original form, called plaintext.
	Encryption and decryption are also known as encipher and decipher. Encryption for OpenVMS
	software is based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) alogrithm and is integrated
	with the operating system. This allows OpenVMS users, system managers, security managers,
	or programmers to secure their files, save sets, or application data with AES Encryption.
Enterprise	See EOE.
Operating
Environment
EOE	Enterprise Operating Environment. The tier of the Operating Environment for OpenVMS for
	Integrity Servers that offers everything offered by the Foundation Operating Environment
	(FOE) plus system management capabilities and volume shadowing.
	See also FOE, OE, MCOE.
Extensible	See EFI.
Firmware
Interface
FOE	Foundation Operating Environment. The tier of the Operating Environment for OpenVMS for
	Integrity Servers that offers the base operating system and networking transport products. The
	contents of this tier are contained in each of the other, higher-level tiers.
	See also EOE, MCOE, OE.
Foundation	See FOE.
Operating
Environment
Global Workload	See gWLM.
Manager
gWLM	HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager. The VSE Management Software application
	that provides centralized, intelligent, policy-based resource management across multiple HP
	servers. The resource-sharing policies increase system utilization and facilitate controlled sharing
	of system resources. gWLM's monitoring abilities provide both real-time and historical
	monitoring of resource allocation.
	See also HP SIM, VSE, WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management Services for OpenVMS).
HP SIM	HP Systems Insight Manager. The unified infrastructure management strategy foundation
	which provides the platform and framework on which the VSE Management Software products
	are deployed. HP SIM (an HP implementation of WBEM) provides simplified, centralized
	management of multiple servers and platforms through a web-based, unified interface.
	See also gWLM, provisioning, VSE, WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management Services for
	OpenVMS).
HP Systems	See HP SIM.
Insight Manager
HRS	Human Recognition Service Standard. HRS provides generic authentication service suitable
	for use with any form of human authentication (biometrics) for operation with CDSA.
	See also CDSA.
HSx device	A self-contained, intelligent, mass storage subsystem (for example, an HSJ or HSG) that lets
	computers in a cluster environment share disks.

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