Standard terms, abbreviations, and acronyms
A
ASIC
Application-specific integrated circuit
Auxiliary
Any blade in a conjoined server other than the lowest-numbered blade
B
BBRAM
Battery-backed RAM
BBWC
Battery Backed Write Cache
BCH
Boot console handler
C
CE
Customer engineer
CEC
Core electronics complex
CMC
Corrected machine check
CPE
Corrected platform errors
CRU
Customer replaceable unit
CSR
Control status registers
D
DDNS
Dynamic domain name system
DHCP
Dynamic host configuration protocol
DLL
Dynamic-link library
DMA
Direct memory access
DMDC
Data multiplexer/demultiplexer controller
DNS
Domain name system
E
EFI
Extensible Firmware Interface
See also UEFI.
EMS
Event management service
ESD
Electrostatic discharge
F
FC
Fibre Channel
FPL
Forward progress log
FRU
Field replaceable unit
H
HBA
Host bus adapter
HPSP
HP service partition
I
iLO 3
Integrated Lights-Out
IPF
Itanium processor family
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Standard terms, abbreviations, and acronyms