Glossary
Glossary
onQ Appliance
A separate hardware component designed to host a specific computing resource. onQ Appliance is a separate computer system hosting a virtualization hypervisor, OS, Quorum-specific monitoring and other software, and sufficient resources to be able to support intermediate backups and when recovery is required, able to run a large number of nodes as virtual machines.
business continuity
The totality of policies and actions put in place by a business in order to maintain its operations and relationships with partners and clients even when interruptions or disasters occur.
de-duplication
The elimination of redundant blocks of data across PNs to reduce storage and bandwidth requirements. De-duplication is important in backup systems where timely recovery is a concern.
disaster recovery
The ability to recover business systems at an off-site facility in the event of a primary site failure.
DR Appliance
The DR Appliance provides disaster recovery protection for your nodes. Often the DR Appliance is truly remote, being located in a different geographical location and connected through a separate WAN, but a more important distinction is the role it plays as the provider of disaster recovery protection.
HA Appliance
The HA Appliance is the one connected directly to the network on which the Protected Nodes are located. The HA Appliance provides high availability protection.
high availability
Protection of nodes by onQ located on the same LAN as the nodes it protects. When HA recovery is required, Recovery Nodes are started on the HA Appliance.
hypervisor
hypervisor is software platform that allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently as virtual machines on a host computer.
incremental backups
onQ uses a backup scheme wherein a full backup is followed by a series of incremental backups, meaning backups that consist only of changes since the preceding backup. A Recovery Node can be quickly updated by simply merging the latest changes.
onQ Appliance
onQ Appliance refers to the hardware on which onQ Manager runs.
onQ Central
onQ Central is Quorum’s support management system, onQ Central manages alert notifications, licenses, and updates.
onQ Manager
onQ Manager is the service that runs on an onQ Appliance coordinating all protection activities. onQ Manager sends alerts to onQ Central for processing.
onQ Service
onQ Service is the secure, lightweight software agent running on a Protected Node. It communicates with the onQ Manager.
onQ Monitor
onQ Monitor is a tool designed to enable you to monitor multiple onQ Appliances from one user interface.
onQ Portal
onQ Portal is the Web-based user interface used for all monitoring and management functions.
onQ virtual machine
onQ virtual machine (also known as the onQ instance) is a separate operating system implemented in software. An onQ Appliance can host more than one onQ virtual machine. Each onQ instance provides an onQ Portal. An MSP (Managed Service Provider) configuration hosted by a single onQ Appliance can have several onQ instance
protection
Any node on your network for which onQ provides a virtual image that can be run is said to be protected by onQ.
Protected Node
The physical or virtual machine to be protected by onQ. Abbreviated PN.
Recovery Node
The up-to-date ready-to-run copy of the Protected Node. Abbreviated RN.
replication
The process of reproducing a Recovery Node where the original image is on an HA Appliance and is replicated on the DR Appliance.
squirtcopy
onQ’s backup utility.
test mode
Test mode means that a Recovery Node runs in a private network environment isolated from production facilities.
throttling
Bandwidth throttling is a technique for limiting the amount of transfer bandwidth available for data transfer on a network.
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