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MAC addresses, 178-179, 440

Mac clients , 152

Mac OS, 122-123

magnetic disk storage, 84-85

magnetic disks, 68, 78, 94

magnetic tape, 78, 94

magnetic tape drives , 90-92

magnetic tape storage, 90-94

formats, 92

optical storage, 93-94

read/write mechanisms, 92

tape libraries, 93

tape systems, 92-93

mainframes, 210-211, 277

maintenance

applications, 24-25, 31-32

NAS workloads, 333

SAN software, 247

SAN workloads, 313-314

workloads, 286

management information bases (MIBs), 238, 412, 414

Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, 440-441

Massive Parallel Processing Systems (MPP)

described, 497

I/O processing and, 53-54

MIMD and, 106

overview, 52-53

shared nothing systems, 55-56, 111-112

master file tables (MFT), 120

MCA (Micro Channel Architecture), 99

memory

I/O bottlenecks and, 148

NAS and, 137, 148

NAS devices, 148

NV-RAM, 164, 497

shared, 112-113

See also cache; RAM

mesh configurations, 256, 258, 296, 306-307

messaging workloads, 256, 258

metadata, 120-121, 126

Metro Data Areas, 21

MFT (master file tables), 120

MIBs (management information bases), 238, 412, 414

Micro Channel Architecture (MCA), 99

microcode , 79, 81, 83

micro- kernels

defined, 497

Fabric OS micro-kernel , 205-207

NAS. See NAS micro-kernel OS

SANs, 205-207

Microsoft file servers, 40, 42

middleware, 304

MIMD (multi-instruction multi-data), 54, 105-106

mirroring, 30, 174, 376

MITM (Man-in-the-Middle) attacks, 440-441

monitoring functions, SAN, 247

motherboard connections, 99

MPP (Massive Parallel Processing Systems)

described, 497

I/O processing and, 53-54

MIMD and, 106

overview, 52-53

shared nothing systems, 55-56, 111-112

multi-instruction multi-data (MIMD), 54, 105-106

Multiple Virtual Systems. See MVS

multiswitch SANs, 256-258, 270

MVS (Multiple Virtual Systems), 52

MVS operating system, 260

MVS-JES2/MVS_JES3 systems, 52