An architecture in which several identical processors share memory under one operating system. In vSphere it describes a VM with multiple vCPUs; Fault Tolerance can protect these (SMP-FT) up to 8 vCPUs, maintaining a secondary copy on a different host.
Also called symmetric multiprocessing.
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Each book explains SMP in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Share
In OpenSharing, the container you fill with tables, views, volumes, models and notebooks for recipients. You need
CREATE SHAREon the metastore to make one; add a schema and all its assets, including later ones, go with history. - OS
Operating system, which you manage yourself on IaaS VMs. PaaS offerings like App Service do not expose it.
- vSphere
VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
- Fault tolerance
Lets a Copy activity keep going instead of failing when it meets rows that don't fit the destination, or files that are missing, forbidden or have invalid names. Skipped rows are counted in rowsSkipped and logging of them is optional.
- RAMP
The approach used by the Cloud Adoption Framework's Manage methodology to structure cloud operations: teams, duties, processes and tools. It divides what the central platform handles from what each workload handles.