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VMDC Abbreviations and Acronyms
Virtualized Multiservice Data Center (VMDC) Abbreviations and AcronymsFebruary 21, 2013
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Virtualized Multiservice Data Center (VMDC) Abbreviations and Acronyms
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VMDC Abbreviations and Acronyms
Table 1 lists Virtualized Multiservice Data Center (VMDC) abbreviations and acronyms, including Data Center Interconnect (DCI) terms, for authoring and customer reference.
Table 1 VMDC Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation
Expanded
10GE Ten Gigabit Ethernet 1R2C One Rate 2 Colors AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting AAG At A Glance (doc type) ABR Area Border Router ACE Application Control Engine (Cisco) ACL Access Control List AH Authentication Header ARP Address Resolution Protocol AS Autonomous System ASA Adaptive Security Appliance (Cisco) ASBR Autonomous System Border Router ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit AVG Active Virtual Gateway BDR Backup Designated Router BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (Frame Relay QoS) BGP Border Gateway Protocol Bidir-PIM Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit BVI Bridge Virtual Interface CAM Content Addressable Memory CBWFQ Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing (QoS) CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol (Cisco) CE Cache Engine CE Customer Edge CEF Cisco Express Forwarding CFS Cisco Fabric Service CIFS Common Internet File System CIR Committed Information Rate CLI Command Line Interface CNA Converged Network Adapter CoPP Control Plane Policing CPU Central Processing Unit CSD Cisco Secure Desktop (Cisco) CSSC Cisco Secure Services Client CTA Cisco Trust Agent CTI Common Test Interface CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing DC Data Center DCBX Data Center Bridging Exchange (IEEE 802.1AB) DCE Data Center Ethernet DCI Data Center Interconnect DC-PE Data Center Provider Edge DCNM Data Center Network Manager DEC Distributed EtherChannel DF Designated Forwarder DFC Distributed Forwarding Card (Cisco) DG Design Guide (doc type) DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol DIG Design and Implementation Guide DM Device Manager DMZ Demilitarized Zone DR Designated Router DR Disaster Recovery DRS Distributed Resource Scheduling DSN Data Center Service Node DUT Device Under Test DVS Distributed Virtual Switch DWDM Dense Wave Division Multiplexing DWRR Deficit Weighted Round Robin EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol EAPOL Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN eBGP External Border Gateway Protocol ECMP Equal Cost Multipathing EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol EOBC Ethernet Out-of-Band Channel EoMPLS Ethernet over Multiprotocol Label Switching EOU EAP-over-UDP ERSPAN Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer ESP Encapsulating Security Protocol ETS Enhanced Transmission Selection FC Fibre Channel FC-GS Fibre Channel Generic Services FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCS First Customer Ship FE Fast Ethernet FEC Fast (Ethernet) EtherChannel FHR First Hop Router FIB Forwarding Information Base FM Fabric Manager FSPF Fabric Shortest Path First FSU Fast Software Upgrade FT Fault-Tolerant FTP File Transfer Protocol FWSM Firewall Services Module (Cisco) GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter GE Gigabit Ethernet GEC Gigabit (Ethernet) EtherChannel GLBP Gateway Load Balancing Protocol GUI Graphical User Interface HA High Availability HBA Host Bus Adapter HQoS Hierarchical QoS HSRP Hot Standby Router Protocol HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol IaaS Infrastructure as a Service iBGP Internal Border Gateway Protocol ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol ICS Integrated Compute Stack ICV Integrity Check Value IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IG Implementation Guide (doc type) IGMP Internet Group Messaging Protocol IGP Interior Gateway Protocol IKE Internet Key Exchange IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second IP Internet Protocol IPC Inter-Process Communication IPM Internetwork Performance Monitor IPsec IP Security IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4 ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol ISL Inter-Switch Links L2 (OSI Model) Layer 2 L3 (OSI Model) Layer 3 LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol LAN Local Area Network LDP Label Distribution Protocol LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LHR Last Hop Router LP1X LAN Port 802.1x LPIP LAN Port IP LR Long Range LSA Link State Advertisement LUN Logical Unit Number MAC Media Access Control MACsec MAC Security MDS Multilayer Director Switch MEC Multi-Chassis EtherChannel MIB Management Information Base MLS Multi-Layer Switching MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS-TC MPLS Traffic Class MQC Modular QoS CLI (Cisco) MSDP Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSFC Multilayer Switch Feature Card MST Multiple Spanning Tree MSTI Multiple Spanning Tree Instance MSTP Multiservice Transport Platform MTU Maximum Transmission Unit MUX Multiplex NAC Network Admission Control NAD Network Access Device NAS Network Attached Storage NAT Network Address Translation NDE Netflow Data Export NFS Network File System NGN Next Generation Network NIC Network Interface Card NSF Non-Stop Forwarding NTP Network Time Protocol OEO Optical-to-Electrical-to-Optical OID Object Identifier OIR Online Insertion/Removal ONS Optical Networking System OOB Out-of-Band OPEX Operating Expense OSI Open Systems Interconnect OSPF Open Shortest Path First P2P Point-to-Point PAgP Port Aggregation Protocol PAT Port Address Translation PB PetaByte PDU Protocol Data Unit PFC Priority Flow Control PFC Policy Feature Card PIM Protocol Independent Multicast PIM-DM Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode PIM-SP Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode PIR Peak Information Rate PKL Peer Keepalive Link Pod 1 Point of Delivery PoE Power over Ethernet PVST Per-VLAN Spanning-Tree PVT Private QoS Quality of Service RAC Real Application Cluster) RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service RHI Route Health Injection RIP Route Information Protocol ROADM Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer RP (Multicast) Rendezvous Point RP (Supervisor Architecture) Route Processor RPF Reverse Path Forwarding RPR+ Route Processor Redundancy Plus rPVST+ Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning-Tree Plus RSH Remote Shell rSPAN Remote Switched Port Analyzer SA Security Association SA Source Active SADB Security Association Database SAN Storage Area Network SCSI Small Computer System Interface SLA Service Level Agreement SLA Service License Agreement SLB Server Load Balancing SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SP Service Provider SP Switch Processor SPAN Switched Port Analyzer SP-DC Service Provider Data Center SPI Security Parameter Index SP-NGN Service Provider Next Generation Network SPT Shortest Path Tree SR Short Range SRM Site Recovery Manager SSH Secure Shell SSL Secure Sockets Layer SSO Stateful Switchover STP Spanning-Tree Protocol STP Spanning Tree Protocol SVI Switched Virtual Interface TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System TCAM Ternary Content Addressable Memory TCP Transmission Control Protocol TDEV Thin Device TenGE Ten Gigabit Ethernet TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol TLS Transport Layer Security TTM Time to Market UCS Unified Computing System (Cisco) UCSM Unified Computing System Manager (Cisco) UDLD Unidirectional Link Detection UDLD-AM Unidirectional Link Detection - Aggressive Mode UDP User Datagram Protocol uRPF Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding VCE Virtual Computing Environment vCPU Virtual CPU vDS vNetwork Distributed Switch VEM Virtual Ethernet Module vFW Virtual Firewall VG Virtual Gateway VIC Virtual Interface Card VLAN Virtual LAN VM Virtual Machine VMAC Virtual MAC VMDC Virtualized Multiservice Data Center (Cisco) vMotion Virtual Motion VNMC Virtual Network Management Center VOQ Virtual Output Queue vPC Virtual Port-Channel VQI Virtual Queue Index VRF Virtual Routing and Forwarding VSAN Virtual SAN VSG Virtual Security Gateway (Cisco) VSL Virtual Switch Link VSS Virtual Switch System (Cisco) VTP VLAN Trunking Protocol WCCP Web Cache Communication Protocol WRED Weighted Random Early Detection
1 A basic infrastructure module that is a logical repeatable construct with predictable infrastructure characteristics and deterministic functions. A pod identifies a modular unit of data center components and enables customers to add network, compute, and storage resources incrementally.