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All terms and acronyms.
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* dom0 : "Domain 0", or "control domain". The initial domain in Xen and XCP-ng, which has direct access to hardware and manages other virtual machines.
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* HVM : Hardware Virtual Machine
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* PBD : Physical Block Device
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* PIF : Physical Interface
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* PV : ParaVirtualization
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* SR : Storage Repository
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* VBD : Virtual Block Device
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* VDI : Virtual Disk Image
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* VM : Virtual Machine
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* XCP-ng : XCP New Generation
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* XCP : Xen Cloud Platform
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* CoW: [Copy-on-write](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write)
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* Dom0: Abbreviation for "[domain 0](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Dom0)"
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* DomU: Abbreviation for "[unprivileged domain](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/DomU)" (no access to the hardware)
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* DRBD: [Distributed Replicated Block Device](/xostor/#drdb)
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* HVM: [Hardware Virtual Machine](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Understanding_the_Virtualization_Spectrum#Xen_Project_and_Full_Virtualization)
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* LUN: [Logical Unit Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_unit_number)
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* LVM: [Logical Volume Manager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)) ([manpage]([](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvm.8.html#DESCRIPTION)))
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* NBD: [Network Block Device](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device) ([official doc](https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/blob/master/doc/proto.md))
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* PBD: [Physical Block Device](/storage/#-how-to-modify-an-existing-sr-connection)
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* PIF: [Physical Interface](/project/architecture/#pifs)
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* PV: [Para-Virtualization](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Paravirtualization_(PV))
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* RPU: [Rolling Pool Update](/management/updates/#from-xen-orchestra)
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* SMAPI: [Storage Manager API](https://github.com/xapi-project/xapi-storage)
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* SR: [Storage Repository](/storage/)
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* VBD: [Virtual Block Device](https://docs.kernel.org/block/ublk.html)
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* VDI: Oracle's _VirtualBox Disk Image_ format
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* VG: [LVM's Volume Group](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvm.8.html#DESCRIPTION)
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* VHD: [_Virtual Hard Disk_ file format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)) ([specification](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23850))
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* VMDK: [_Virtual Machine Disk_ file format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMDK) ([specification](https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/blob/main/documentation/VMWare%20Virtual%20Disk%20Format%20(VMDK).asciidoc))
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* VM: [Virtual Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine)
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* XAPI: [Xen Project Management API](/management/manage-at-scale/xo-api/)
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* XCP-ng: [XCP New Generation](https://xcp-ng.org/)
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* XCP: [Xen Cloud Platform](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/XCP_Overview) (legacy Citrix project)
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* XOA: [Xen Orchestra Appliance](/management/manage-at-scale/xo-web-ui/)
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* XOSTOR: [Hyper-convergence solution based on DRBD](/xostor/)

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