Dell PowerEdge 750 User Manual

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FTP

 

File transfer protocol

 

g

 

Gram(s)

 

G

 

Gravities

 

Gb

 Gigabit(s); 1024 megabits or 1,073,741,824 bits

 

GB

 Gigabyte(s); 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. However, when referring to hard

-drive capacity, the term is usually rounded to 1,000,000,000 bytes.

 

graphics mode

 

A video mode that can be defined as x horizontal by y vertical pixels by z colors

 

group

 

As it relates to DMI, a group is a data structure that defines common information, or attributes, about a manageable component.

 

guarding

 

A type of data redundancy in which a set of physical drives stores data and an additional drive stores parity data. See also mirroring, striping, and RAID.

 

h

 

Hexadecimal. A base-16 numbering system, often used in programming to identify addresses in the system's RAM and I/O memory addresses for devices. In

text, hexadecimal numbers are often followed by h.

 

headless system

 

A system or device that functions without having a keyboard, mouse, or monitor attached. Normally, headless systems are managed over a network using

an Internet browser.

 

host adapter

 

A host adapter implements communication between the system's bus and the controller for a peripheral device. (Hard-drive controller subsystems include

integrated host adapter circuitry.) To add a SCSI expansion bus to your system, you must install or connect the appropriate host adapter.

 

Hz

 

Hertz

 

I/O

 

Input/output. A keyboard is an input device, and a monitor is an output device. In general, I/O activity can be differentiated from computational activity.

 

ID

 

Identification

 

IDE

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