HP ProLiant Servers AIS: Official Study Guide and Desk Reference

DAAD

     (Drive Array Advanced Diagnostics utility)

DAS 2nd

     (direct-attached storage) 2nd

data

    Array controller protection

         BBWC (battery-backed write cache) 2nd

         recovery ROM

    automatic recovery

         Array controller 2nd

     availability

     buses 2nd 3rd 4th

     cache 2nd

         levels and placement 2nd

         lines 2nd

         tag RAM 2nd

     cache,improving performance 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

     control signal direction

    Fibre Channel

         ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) 2nd

         benefits 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

         cabling 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th

         hardware 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th

         over IP 2nd

         terminology 2nd

         topologies 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

     memory 2nd

     pumped buses

data guarding

     (RAID 4) 2nd 3rd

Data Interface Buffer

     (DIB)

data sector striping

     (RAID 2)

data striping

     drive arrays

dB/km

     (decibels per kilometer)

DDR

     (Double Data Rate) 2nd

     versus SDRAM 2nd

DDR SDRAM

     versus RDRAM 2nd

decibels per kilometer (dB/km)

decode units 2nd

defaults

     server configuratiion 2nd

deployment

     server installation 2nd

designs

     servers 2nd

devices

     control signal arbitration

     Lights-Out 2nd

         configuring management client 2nd

         global settings 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

         RILOE II group administration 2nd 3rd

         user settings 2nd

     PCI bus

    SCSI hard drives

         IDs 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

DHCP

     (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

diagnostic tests

     Server Diagnostics 2nd 3rd

DIB

     (Data Interface Buffer)

differential backups

differential SCSI 2nd 3rd

     high-voltage 2nd

     low-voltage 2nd

DIMM

     (dual inline memory module)

DIMMs

     (dual inline memory modules)

         memory upgrades

direct mapped cache 2nd 3rd

direct memory access

     (DMA)

direct-attached storage [See DAS]

     (DAS)

disaster recovery

     backups 2nd

disk

    striping

         Array controller 2nd

disk duplexing

     (RAID 1) 2nd

disk mirroring

     (RAID 1)

disk striping

     array performance optimization 2nd 3rd 4th

         stripe size 2nd

disk striping (RAID 0) 2nd

disk systems

     StorageWorks

disks

     drive array 2nd

     drives

distances

     Fibre Channel

distributed data guarding

     (RAID 5) 2nd 3rd 4th

DL line

     Proliant server family 2nd

DMA

     (direct memory access)

DMA requests

     (DRQ)

domain validation

     Wide-Ultra2 SCSI-3 2nd

Double Data Rate

     (DDR) 2nd

     versus SDRAM 2nd

double transition clocking

     Wide-Ultra2 SCSI-3 2nd

DRAM 2nd

     (dynamic ram)

     (dynamic RAM)

Drive Array Advanced Diagnostics utility

     (DAAD utility)

drive arrays 2nd

     RAID 2nd 3rd

         implementation 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th

         level performance comparison 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

         RAID 0 2nd

         RAID 1 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

         RAID 1+0 2nd 3rd 4th

         RAID 2

         RAID 3 2nd

         RAID 4 2nd 3rd

         RAID 5 2nd 3rd 4th

         RAID ADG 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

     technologies 2nd

         features 2nd 3rd

         logical drives 2nd 3rd

         number or drives 2nd

drivers

     updates 2nd

drives

    array

         versus RAID memory 2nd

    Array controllers

         accelerator 2nd

         automatic data recovery 2nd

         capacity expansion 2nd 3rd

         data protection 2nd 3rd

         disk striping 2nd

         drive failure protection technology 2nd

         DSR (Dynamic Sector Repair) 2nd

         hot-plug drive support 2nd 3rd

         logical drive expansion 2nd

         online spares 2nd 3rd

         online stripe-size migration

         performance tuning

         RAID-level migration 2nd

         stripe size optimization 2nd 3rd

    ATA/IDE hard drives

         ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) 2nd

         Serial ATA 2nd 3rd

         server benefits 2nd

         standards 2nd

     disk

    online spares

         Array controllers 2nd 3rd

     SCSI hard drives 2nd

         characteristics 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th 41st 42nd 43rd

         new technologies 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

         SCSI-1 2nd

         SCSI-2 2nd

         SCSI-3 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd

         standards summary 2nd

         troubleshooting 2nd

         versus parallel ATA/IDE hard drive 2nd

     SCSI implementation 2nd

         10K RPM 2nd

         15K RPM 2nd

         Wide-Ultra2 2nd

         Wide-Ultra3 2nd

     upgrades 2nd

DRQ

     (DMA requests)

DSR

     (Dynamic sector repair)

     Array controllers 2nd

dual independent buses 2nd

dual inline memory module

     (DIMM)

dual inline memory modules

     (DIMMs)

         memory upgrades

dual-peer I/O buses

dual-processors

     mixing processors 2nd

         Intel support 2nd 3rd

         operating system support 2nd

         processor steppings 2nd

dynamic execution

     processors 2nd 3rd

         branch prediction 2nd

         out-of-order execution 2nd 3rd

         speculative execution 2nd

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [See DHCP]

dynamic ram [See DRAM]

dynamic RAM [See DRAM]

dynamic sector repair [See DSR]

dynamic setup support

     server installation