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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 (2

40

)

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

HPSS Management Guide

November 2009

Release 7.3 (Revision 1.0)

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