System Manager The Storage System Management (SSM) server.  It communicates with all other 
HPSS components requiring monitoring or control.  It also communicates with 
the SSM graphical user interface (hpssgui) and command line interface 
(hpssadm).
TB Terabyte (240)
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
trace A log record message type used to record entry/exit processing paths through 
HPSS server software.
transaction A programming construct that enables multiple data operations to possess the 
following properties:
All operations commit or abort/roll-back together such that they form a single 
unit of work.
All data modified as part of the same transaction are guaranteed to maintain a 
consistent state whether the transaction is aborted or committed.
Data modified from one transaction are isolated from other transactions until the 
transaction is either committed or aborted.
Once the transaction commits, all changes to data are guaranteed to be 
permanent.
TTY Teletypewriter
UDA User-defined Attribute 
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UID User Identifier
UPC Universal Product Code
UUID Universal Unique Identifier
virtual volume An HPSS object managed by the Core Server that is used to represent logical 
media. A virtual volume is made up of a group of physical storage media (a 
stripe group of physical volumes).
virtual volume block size The size of the block of data bytes that is written to each physical volume of a 
striped virtual volume before switching to the next physical volume.
VV Virtual Volume
XDSM The Open Group’s Data Storage Management standard. It defines APIs that use 
events to notify Data Management applications about operations on files.
XFS A file system created by SGI available as open source for the Linux operating 
system.
XML Extensible Markup Language
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