Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations
The table below explains terms and abbreviations used throughout this document that are unique to this product:
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Term |
Full Form |
Definition |
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JS |
JetStream Software |
Vendor of orchestration software (Google Compute Engine Disaster Recovery by JetStream) that enables disaster recovery orchestration on GCE. |
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GCE |
Google Compute Engine |
A computing and hosting service that allows virtual machines to be created and operated on the Google Google infrastructure. |
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GCP Marketplace |
Google Cloud Platform Marketplace |
Location where Google Cloud applications (i.e., Google Compute Engine Disaster Recovery by JetStream) can be acquired. |
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Management Site |
JetStream Management Site Portal |
A product website portal used to: (1) Review and manage product entitlement and protection status. (2) Configure and manage the ARO infrastructure. |
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Helper |
Helper Utility |
An automation tool of the Management Site used to prepare CLI command scripts for configuring and managing AROVA. |
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PDAR |
Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication |
GCE cross-region asynchronous replication capability. |
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ARO |
Asynchronous Replication Orchestration |
Asynchronous replication orchestration is performed by Google Compute Engine Disaster Recovery by JetStream to enable disaster recovery on GCE. |
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AROVA |
Asynchronous Replication Orchestration Virtual Appliance |
An asynchronous replication virtual appliance that manages disk and VM recovery from catastrophic partial zonal, zonal and regional failures. |
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ACD |
AROVA Configuration Disk |
A Regional Disk containing the AROVA configuration database. It is replicated by PDAR. |
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CDB |
AROVA Configuration DB |
A database containing persistent AROVA metadata and protected VM properties. |
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CG |
Consistency Group |
A group of consistently replicated disks. |
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R1Z1, R1Z2, R2Z1, R2Z2 |
(R) Region 1/2, (Z) Zone 1/2 |
Regional and zonal disk naming convention. |
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RP |
Replication Pair |
A primary-secondary pair of regions used for asynchronous replication. |
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Domain |
Protected Domain |
A failover and failback unit – typically representing a multi-VM virtual application. |
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"RG" or "RIG" |
"Recovery Instances Group" |
A group of dependent VMs that require cross-VM replication consistency. Recovery Group VMs are replicated using a single Consistency Group. |
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Runbook |
Runbook |
Defines the boot order and pause time between booting VMs of a Recovery Group. Runbooks are assigned to Recovery Groups. |
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TFO |
Test Failover |
A function to test the consistency of individual or RG VMs in advance of an actual failover event without impacting the normal operation of production VMs and data. |
Table 1: Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations.