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B

backing store 

The physical device on the VM Host that is allocated to guests, such as a network adapter,, disk, or file.


BMC 

Baseboard Management Controller. The Management Processor (MP) console for Itanium®-based systems.


C

CPU 

Central processing unit. A single processor core, either physical or virtual.


E

EFI 

Extensible Firmware Interface (the boot firmware for all Integrity systems).


entitlement 

The minimum percentage of CPU processing power that a guest can use.


G

guest administrator 

The administrator of a virtual machine. A guest administrator can operate the virtual machine using the hpvmconsole command with action that can affect the specific guest only.


guest console 

The virtual machine console that is started by the hpvmconsole command.


guest operator 

The administrator of the guest OS. This level of privilege gives complete control of the virtual machine but does not allow control of the other guests, the VM Host, or the backing stores.


guest OS 

Guest operating system.


H

host administrator 

The system administrator. This level of privilege provides control of the VM Host system and its resources, as well as creating and management of guests.


I

Ignite-UX 

The HP-UX Ignite server product, used as a core build image to create or reload HP-UX servers.


Integrity VM 

The HP Integrity Virtual Machines product.


ISSE 

HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition


L

localnet 

The local network created by Integrity VM for internal, local communications. Guests can communicate on the localnet, but the VM Host cannot.


LUN 

Logical Unit Number.


N

NIC 

Network Interface Card. Also called network adapter.


P

PMAN 

Platform Manager. See VM Host.


V

virtual machine 

Virtual hardware system. Also called VM.


virtual machine console 

The user-mode application that provides console emulation for virtual machines. Each instance of the virtual machine console is one console session for its associated virtual machine. Also called VM console.


Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 

The management application responsible for managing and configuring HP Integrity Virtual Machines. Also called VM Manager.


VM 

See Virtual machine.


VM Host 

The virtual machine host system.


VMM 

See Virtual Machine Manager


vswitch 

Virtual switch. A component in the guest virtual network. By associating the vswitch with a physical working LAN on the VM Host, you provide the guest with the capability of communicating outside the localnet.


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