Editing
Jargon Buster
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
[[Category:Open Homelab Project]] This page is a glossary of all of the crazy terms we come up with in IT. Even veterans sometimes come up against terms we don't recognise, especially if they're outside of our tech silo! {{Wikimedia-stub}} == Compute == *[[Nanolab]] - See [[Nanolab]] * TDP - Thermal Design Power == Networking == * BMC - Baseboard Management Controller * IPMI - IP Management Interface * iLO - Integrated Lights Out (HP Specific IPMI) * iDRAC - Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (Dell Specific IPMI) * DAC - Direct Attached Cable * NIC - Network Interface Controller * SFP - Small Form-factor Pluggable, max 4.25Gbps * SFP+ - Small Form-factor Pluggable+, max 10Gbps * PoE - Power Over Ethernet, 802.3af max 15.4 watts * PoE+ - Power Over Ethernet+, 802.3at max 25.5 watts == Storage == * DWPD - Drive Writes Per Day * HDD - Hard Disk Drive * IOPS -Input/Output Operations per Second * NAS - Network Attached Storage * NTFS - NT File System * PATA - Parallel ATA * RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks * SAN - Storage Area Network * SAS - Serial Attached SCSI * SATA - Serial ATA * SMART - Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology * SSD - Solid State Drive * TBW - Terabytes Written *BTRFS - B-Tree File System *ZFS - Zettabyte File System == Design == * MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures * MTTR - Mean Time To Recover * RPO - Recovery Point Objective * RTO - Recovery Time Objective
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Project Homelab may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Project Homelab:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Template used on this page:
Template:Wikimedia-stub
(
edit
)
Navigation menu
Personal tools
Not logged in
Talk
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Namespaces
Page
Discussion
English
Views
Read
Edit
Edit source
View history
More
Search
Navigation
Main page
About the Project
Get Involved!
Brainstorming
Wiki HOWTO
Article Template
Disclaimer
Recent changes
Random page
Help
Content
Requirements
Homelab Categories
Building a Homelab
Managing a Homelab
Securing a Homelab
Keep It Simple Stupid
HOWTO Articles
Decision Trees
The Unofficial HCL
Jargon Buster
Homelab Horror Stories
Free Learning Resources
Tools
What links here
Related changes
Special pages
Page information
[[File:nodespace-selfhosted-234x60-1.png|link=http://www.nodespace.com]]