Acronym Soup: What is PXE?

Acronym Soup: What is PXE?

PXE stands for “Preboot eXecution Environment,” pronounced as “pixie,” and was introduced as a component of the Wired for Management (WfM) framework by Intel in 1999. WfM has been superseded by Active Management Technology, but PXE is still a valuable tool for network...
Acronym Soup: What is FRU?

Acronym Soup: What is FRU?

Put simply, FRU stands for “Field Replaceable Unit”, and represents any number of components within a server, compute blade/node or other computing system that can be easily removed and replaced at the location where the system is deployed (“in the...
Acronym Soup: What is SOL?

Acronym Soup: What is SOL?

In today’s “Acronym Soup” blog post, we remain over on the manageability side of things and ask the question: what is SOL? To begin, SOL is an acronym for “Serial over LAN”, which is a remote access communication protocol that harnesses...
Acronym Soup: What is IPMI?

Acronym Soup: What is IPMI?

In today’s “Acronym Soup” blog post, we will once again take a step over on the manageability side of things and ask the question: what is IPMI? IPMI is an acronym for “Intelligent Platform Management Interface”, so this alone gives an...
Acronym Soup: What is VeB?

Acronym Soup: What is VeB?

For today’s acronym soup, we’re serving you some hot VeB acronym soup and giving you some details about what VeB is and what VeB is used for. What does VeB stand for? VeB stands for Visual eBIOS. What is VeB/what does it do? First introduced in 2001,...