Acronyms & Abbreviations

Acronym or Abbreviation Explanation
API Application Programming Interface
AWS Amazon Web Services
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CLI Command Line Interface
COW Copy On Write
CP Control Plane
CSI Container Storage Interface
DMA Direct Memory Access
EA Erasure Coding
HA High Availability
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
ID Identifier
IO Input-Output
IOMMU Input-Output Memory Management Unit
IP Internet Protocol
K8s Kubernetes
LV Logical Volume
MFT Maximum Tolerable Failure
NIC Network Interface Card
NQN NVMe Qualified Name
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express
NVMe-oF NVMe over Fabrics
NVMe/RoCE NVMe over RDMA on Converged Ethernet
NVMe/TCP NVMe over TCP
OS Operating System
PV Persistent Volume
PVC Persistent Volume Claim
QOS Quality of Service
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RDMA Remote Direct Memory Access
ROW Redirect On Write
ROX Read Only Many
RWO Read Write Once
RWX Read Write Many
SC Storage Class
SDK Software Development Kit
SDS Software Defined Storage
SP Storage Plane
SPDK Storage Performance Development Kit
SSD Solid State Drive
SSL Secure Socket Layer
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UUID Universally Unique Identifier
VM Virtual Machine