Comment by avip

7 years ago

TLAs I identify:

  - AIX
  - IBM
  - R&D

To be interpreted:

  - POWER*
  - VAR
  - CUoD
  - HMC
  - LPAR
  - OpenPOWER

Conclusion: I'm not a sysadmin.

2 comments

avip

detaro 7 years ago

To be fair, a bunch of the latter ones are fairly specific. roughly:

POWERx: IBMs CPU architecture

VAR - value added reseller: if you're to small to talk to an enterprise vendor directly, or want a mix of stuff, you buy from them. (the "value added" bit is that ideally they sell you setup or other services in combination)

CUoD - Capacity Upgrade on Demand: IBM will sell you a server with more CPUs and memory than you paid for. If you then need more, you can buy a license key to temporarily or permanently turn on the extra hardware that's already in your server

HMC - Hardware Management Console: Terminal/interface you use to configure the server and the firmware.

LPAR - Logical PARtition: POWER systems have a hypervisor at the firmware (and to a degree hardware) level. the "virtual machines" you create on it are called LPARs.

OpenPOWER: IBMs effort to make POWER CPUs and surrounding hard- and software more open (partially sharing designs with partners, partially open sourcing)

avip 7 years ago

Thanks! I was half joking, but that was really interesting and to the point.