HP OpenVMS 8.x manual Dvd

Operating	See OE.
Environment
Operating	See OE DVD.
Environment
DVD
operating system	The CD containing the OpenVMS Alpha operating system and the installation and other
CD	procedures.
	See also operating system media, Operating Environment DVD.
operating system	The operating system CD or the OE DVD included with your OpenVMS distribution kit.
media	See also operating system CD, OE DVD.
partition	A subset of the server hardware that includes processor, memory, and I/O resources on which
	an operating system can run. This type of partitioning allows a single server to run an operating
	system independently in each partition with isolation from other partitions.
	See also cell, nPartition, server complex, virtual partition.
Pay per use	See PPU.
Performance Data	See TDC.
Collector
platform	A PCSI utility concept in which the OpenVMS operating system is kitted with options for
	selected other products (for example, DECwindows Motif and networking products) so that
	the user can opt to install all at once. Generically, a platform is the combination of physical
	hardware and operating system on which a piece of management or application software runs.
POSSE	Pre-OS System Environment. The HP implementation of EFI that extends the EFI Shell and EFI
	Boot Manager to include additional features for managing hardware and system boot options.
	See also EFI.
PPU	Pay per use. Supported on cell-based Integrity servers and part of the HP Utility Pricing Solutions
	program for customers who prefer leasing systems from HP Finance. Pay per use provides
	CPU capacity as needed, basing payment on actual metered or monitored use of that capacity.
	You acquire a particular hardware platform and number of processors, and are charged for
	usage of the processors based on demand. PPU is intended for customers who would rather
	lease the processors rather than purchasing them as would be done using Instant Capacity
	(iCAP).
	See also iCAP, TiCAP.
Providers	See WBEM Providers for OpenVMS.
provisioning	An HP SIM feature that allows you to install or upgrade OpenVMS on one or more servers in
	the network simultaneously. HP SIM initiates the process and the installation or upgrade
	automatically continues in the background.
	See also HP SIM, VSE, WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management Services for OpenVMS).
rolling upgrade	Each system disk in an OpenVMS Cluster is upgraded individually, allowing old and new
	versions of the operating system to run together. Certain members of the cluster are available
	for use while others are being upgraded.
	See also concurrent upgrade.
satellite node	A computer that is part of a local area cluster. A satellite node is downline loaded from a boot
	server and then boots remotely from the system disk served by a disk server in the local area
	cluster.
	See also disk server, boot server.
scratch disk	A blank disk or a disk with files you no longer need.
Secure Delivery	Supported by CDSA, Secure Delivery uses public key and digital signature technology to
	implement a system that provides OpenVMS users the ability to validate files from OpenVMS
	and third-party OpenVMS vendors. The validation process involves authenticating the originator
	and verifying the contents of a file. Secure Delivery is integrated into PCSI to automatically
	ensure that software installed on OpenVMS was not tampered with prior to installation. Most
	kits included on the OpenVMS distribution media (as of Version 8.3) have been signed using
	Secure Delivery.
	See also CDSA.

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