.. Common and domain-specific abbreviations.
.. Plural forms must be defined separately from singular as
.. replacements like |PVC|s won't work.

.. Please keep this list alphabetical.

.. |ACL| replace:: :abbr:`ACL (Access Control List)`
.. |AE| replace:: :abbr:`AE (Aggregated Ethernet)`
.. |AIO| replace:: :abbr:`AIO (All-In-One)`
.. |AIO-DX| replace:: :abbr:`AIO-DX (All-In-One Duplex)`
.. |AIO-SX| replace:: :abbr:`AIO-SX (All-In-One Simplex)`
.. |ARP| replace:: :abbr:`ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)`
.. |AVP| replace:: :abbr:`AVP (Accelerated Virtual Port)`
.. |AVPs| replace:: :abbr:`AVPs (Accelerated Virtual Ports)`
.. |AWS| replace:: :abbr:`AWS (Amazon Web Services)`
.. |BGP| replace:: :abbr:`BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)`
.. |BMC| replace:: :abbr:`BMC (Board Management Controller)`
.. |BMCs| replace:: :abbr:`BMCs (Board Management Controllers)`
.. |BOOTP| replace:: :abbr:`BOOTP (Boot Protocol)`
.. |BPDU| replace:: :abbr:`BPDU (Bridge Protocol Data Unit)`
.. |BPDUs| replace:: :abbr:`BPDUs (Bridge Protocol Data Units)`
.. |BPF| replace:: :abbr:`BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter)`
.. |cBPF| replace:: :abbr:`cBPF (Classic Berkeley Packet Filter)`
.. |eBPF| replace:: :abbr:`eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter)`
.. |CA| replace:: :abbr:`CA (Certificate Authority)`
.. |CAs| replace:: :abbr:`CAs (Certificate Authorities)`
.. |CDI| replace:: :abbr:`CDI (Containerized Data Importer)`
.. |CLI| replace:: :abbr:`CLI (Command Line Interface)`
.. |CLIs| replace:: :abbr:`CLIs (Command Line Interfaces)`
.. |CNAB| replace:: :abbr:`CNAB (Cloud Native Application Bundle)`
.. |CNABs| replace:: :abbr:`CNABs (Cloud Native Application Bundles)`
.. |CNI| replace:: :abbr:`CNI (Container Networking Interface)`
.. |CNIs| replace:: :abbr:`CNIs (Container Networking Interfaces)`
.. |CoW| replace:: :abbr:`CoW (Copy on Write)`
.. |CO| replace:: :abbr:`CO (Container Orchestrator)`
.. |CR| replace:: :abbr:`CR (Custom Resource)`
.. |CRs| replace:: :abbr:`CRs (Custom Resources)`
.. |CRD| replace:: :abbr:`CRD (Custom Resource Definition)`
.. |CRDs| replace:: :abbr:`CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions)`
.. |CSI| replace:: :abbr:`CSI (Container Storage Interface)`
.. |CSIs| replace:: :abbr:`CSIs (Container Storage Interfaces)`
.. |CSK| replace:: :abbr:`CSK (Code Signing Key)`
.. |CSKs| replace:: :abbr:`CSKs (Code Signing Keys)`
.. |CSM| replace:: :abbr:`CSM (Container Storage Module)`
.. |CSMs| replace:: :abbr:`CSMs (Container Storage Modules)`
.. |CSR| replace:: :abbr:`CSR (Certificate Signing Request)`
.. |CSV| replace:: :abbr:`CSV (Comma-Separated Values)`
.. |CVE| replace:: :abbr:`CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure)`
.. |CVEs| replace:: :abbr:`CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)`
.. |CVSS| replace:: :abbr:`CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System)`
.. |DAD| replace:: :abbr:`DAD (Duplicate Address Detection)`
.. |DC| replace:: :abbr:`DC (Distributed Cloud)`
.. |DCF| replace:: :abbr:`DCF (Device Control Function)`
.. |DDP| replace:: :abbr:`DDP (Dynamic Device Personalization)`
.. |DOR| replace:: :abbr:`DOR (Dead Office Recovery)`
.. |DHCP| replace:: :abbr:`DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)`
.. |DLB| replace:: :abbr:`DLB (Dynamic Load Balancer)`
.. |DMA| replace:: :abbr:`DMA (Direct Memory Access)`
.. |DMS| replace:: :abbr:`DMS (O-Cloud Deployment Management Services)`
.. |DNAT| replace:: :abbr:`DNAT (Destination Network Address Translation)`
.. |DNS| replace:: :abbr:`DNS (Domain Name System)`
.. |DPDK| replace:: :abbr:`DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit)`
.. |DN| replace:: :abbr:`DN (Distinguished Name)`
.. |DORA| replace:: :abbr:`DORA (Dell Open RAN Accelerator)`
.. |DRAM| replace:: :abbr:`DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory)`
.. |DRAMs| replace:: :abbr:`DRAMs (Dynamic Random Access Memories)`
.. |DRBD| replace:: :abbr:`DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device)`
.. |DSA| replace:: :abbr:`DSA (Data Streaming Accelerator)`
.. |DSCP| replace:: :abbr:`DSCP (Differentiated Services Code Point)`
.. |DTLS| replace:: :abbr:`DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)`
.. |DVR| replace:: :abbr:`DVR (Distributed Virtual Router)`
.. |DWQ| replace:: abbr:`DWQ (Dedicated Work Queue)`
.. |ECK| replace:: :abbr:`ECK (Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes)`
.. |EMS| replace:: :abbr:`EMS (Element Management System)`
.. |ECDSA| replace:: :abbr:`ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm)`
.. |ePRTC| replace:: :abbr:`ePRTC (Enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock)`
.. |FEC| replace:: :abbr:`FEC (Forward Error Correction)`
.. |FPGA| replace:: :abbr:`FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)`
.. |FQDN| replace:: :abbr:`FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)`
.. |FQDNs| replace:: :abbr:`FQDNs (Fully Qualified Domain Names)`
.. |JWT| replace:: :abbr:`JWT (JSON Web Token)`
.. |GC| replace:: :abbr:`GC (Garbage Collection)`
.. |GM| replace:: :abbr:`GM (Grand Master)`
.. |GNP| replace:: :abbr:`GNP (Global Network Policy)`
.. |GNPs| replace:: :abbr:`GNPs (Global Network Policies)`
.. |GNSS| replace:: :abbr:`GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System)`
.. |GCC| replace:: :abbr:`GCC (GNU Compiler Collection)`
.. |GPU| replace:: :abbr:`GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)`
.. |HA| replace:: :abbr:`HA (High Availability)`
.. |HT| replace:: :abbr:`HT (HyperThreading)`
.. |ICA| replace:: :abbr:`ICA (Intermediate Certificate Authority)`
.. |ICAs| replace:: :abbr:`ICAs (Intermediate Certificate Authorities)`
.. |ICMP| replace:: :abbr:`ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)`
.. |IEEE| replace:: :abbr:`IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)`
.. |IGMP| replace:: :abbr:`IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol)`
.. |IMS| replace:: :abbr:`IMS (O-Cloud Infrastructure Management Services)`
.. |IoT| replace:: :abbr:`IoT (Internet of Things)`
.. |IPAM| replace:: :abbr:`IPAM (IP Address Management)`
.. |IPMI| replace:: :abbr:`IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface)`
.. |IOPS| replace:: :abbr:`IOPS (I/O operations per second)`
.. |IRQ| replace:: :abbr:`IRQ (Interrupt Request)`
.. |ISA| replace:: :abbr:`ISA (Instruction Set Architecture)`
.. |JVM| replace:: :abbr:`JVM (Java Virtual Machine)`
.. |KVM| replace:: :abbr:`KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)`
.. |LACP| replace:: :abbr:`LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)`
.. |LAG| replace:: :abbr:`LAG (Link Aggregation)`
.. |LDAP| replace:: :abbr:`LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)`
.. |LDPC| replace:: :abbr:`LDPC (Low-Density Parity Check)`
.. |LLDP| replace:: :abbr:`LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)`
.. |LSM| replace:: :abbr:`LSM (Linux Security Modules)`
.. |LUKS| replace:: :abbr:`LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup)`
.. |LVG| replace:: :abbr:`LVG (Local Volume Groups)`
.. |MAC| replace:: :abbr:`MAC (Media Access Control)`
.. |MDS| replace:: :abbr:`MDS (MetaData Server for cephfs)`
.. |MEC| replace:: :abbr:`MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing)`
.. |MLD| replace:: :abbr:`MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery)`
.. |ML| replace:: :abbr:`ML (Machine Learning)`
.. |MNFA| replace:: :abbr:`MNFA (Multi-Node Failure Avoidance)`
.. |MOTD| replace:: :abbr:`MOTD (Message of the Day)`
.. |MSR| replace:: :abbr:`MSR (Model-specific Registers)`
.. |mTLS| replace:: :abbr:`mTLS (Mutual Transport Layer Security)`
.. |MTU| replace:: :abbr:`MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)`
.. |NA| replace:: :abbr:`NA (Not Applicable)`
.. |NAT| replace:: :abbr:`NAT (Network Address Translation)`
.. |NAS| replace:: :abbr:`NAS (Network Attached Storage)`
.. |NF| replace:: :abbr:`NF (Network Function)`
.. |NFD| replace:: :abbr:`NFD (Node Feature Discovery)`
.. |NFs| replace:: :abbr:`NFs (Network Functions)`
.. |NFS| replace:: :abbr:`NFS (Network File System)`
.. |NIC| replace:: :abbr:`NIC (Network Interface Card)`
.. |NICs| replace:: :abbr:`NICs (Network Interface Cards)`
.. |NTP| replace:: :abbr:`NTP (Network Time Protocol)`
.. |NUMA| replace:: :abbr:`NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)`
.. |NVMe| replace:: :abbr:`NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express)`
.. |OAM| replace:: :abbr:`OAM (Operations, administration and management)`
.. |OAuth| replace:: :abbr:`OAuth (Open standard for authorization)`
.. |OEM| replace:: :abbr:`OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)`
.. |OC| replace:: :abbr:`OC (Ordinary Clock)`
.. |OCI| replace:: :abbr:`OCI (Open Container Initiative)`
.. |OID| replace:: :abbr:`OID (Object Identifier)`
.. |OIDC| replace:: :abbr:`OIDC (OpenID Connect)`
.. |ONAP| replace:: :abbr:`ONAP (Open Network Automation Program)`
.. |OPA| replace:: :abbr:`OPA (Open Policy Agent)`
.. |OPAs| replace:: :abbr:`OPAs (Open Policy Agents)`
.. |OVS| replace:: :abbr:`OVS (Open Virtual Switch)`
.. |OSD| replace:: :abbr:`OSD (Object Storage Daemons)`
.. |OSDs| replace:: :abbr:`OSDs (Object Storage Daemons)`
.. |O-RAN| replace:: :abbr:`O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network)`
.. |PAC| replace:: :abbr:`PAC (Programmable Acceleration Card)`
.. |PAM| replace:: :abbr:`PAM (Privileged Access Management)`
.. |PCI| replace:: :abbr:`PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)`
.. |PCIe| replace:: :abbr:`PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express)`
.. |PCI-X| replace:: :abbr:`PCI-X (Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended)`
.. |PDU| replace:: :abbr:`PDU (Packet Data Unit)`
.. |PEM| replace:: :abbr:`PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail)`
.. |PF| replace:: :abbr:`PF (Physical Function)`
.. |PHB| replace:: :abbr:`PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)`
.. |PHC| replace:: :abbr:`PHC (PTP Hardware Clock)`
.. |PHCs| replace:: :abbr:`PHCs (PTP Hardware Clocks)`
.. |PKI| replace:: :abbr:`PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)`
.. |PMC| replace:: :abbr:`PMC (PTP Management Client)`
.. |PMD| replace:: :abbr:`PMD (Pole Mode Driver)`
.. |PMU| replace:: :abbr:`PMU (Performance Monitor Unit)`
.. |PQDN| replace:: :abbr:`PDQN (Partially Qualified Domain Name)`
.. |PQDNs| replace:: :abbr:`PQDNs (Partially Qualified Domain Names)`
.. |PRTC| replace:: :abbr:`PRTC (Primary Reference Time Clock)`
.. |PSA| replace:: :abbr:`PSA (Pod Security Admission)`
.. |PSP| replace:: :abbr:`PSP (Pod Security Policy)`
.. |PSPs| replace:: :abbr:`PSPs (Pod Security Policies)`
.. |PTP| replace:: :abbr:`PTP (Precision Time Protocol)`
.. |PTS| replace:: :abbr:`PTS (Primary Time Source)`
.. |PVC| replace:: :abbr:`PVC (Persistent Volume Claim)`
.. |PVCs| replace:: :abbr:`PVCs (Persistent Volume Claims)`
.. |PXE| replace:: :abbr:`PXE (Preboot Execution Environment)`
.. |PW| replace:: :abbr:`PW (Per Worker)`
.. |QAT| replace:: :abbr:`QAT (QuickAssist Technology)`
.. |QoS| replace:: :abbr:`QoS (Quality of Service)`
.. |RAID| replace:: :abbr:`RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)`
.. |RAN| replace:: :abbr:`RAN (Radio Access Network)`
.. |RAPL| replace:: :abbr:`RAPL (Running Average Power Limit)`
.. |RBAC| replace:: :abbr:`RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)`
.. |RBD| replace:: :abbr:`RBD (RADOS Block Device)`
.. |RCA| replace:: :abbr:`RCA (Root Certificate Authority)`
.. |RCAs| replace:: :abbr:`RCAs (Root Certificate Authorities)`
.. |RG| replace:: :abbr:`RG (Replication Group)`
.. |RPOs| replace:: :abbr:`RPOs (Recovery Point Objective)`
.. |RPC| replace:: :abbr:`RPC (Remote Procedure Call)`
.. |RST| replace:: :abbr:`rST (reStructuredText)`
.. |RVMC| replace:: :abbr:`RVMC (Redfish Virtual Media Controller)`
.. |RWX| replace:: :abbr:`RWX (Read Write Many)`
.. |SAN| replace:: :abbr:`SAN (Subject Alternative Name)`
.. |SANs| replace:: :abbr:`SANs (Subject Alternative Names)`
.. |SAS| replace:: :abbr:`SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)`
.. |SATA| replace:: :abbr:`SATA (Serial AT Attachment)`
.. |SBR| replace:: :abbr:`SBR (Source-Based Routing)`
.. |SCSI| replace:: :abbr:`SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)`
.. |SCTP| replace:: :abbr:`SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)`
.. |SDO| replace:: :abbr:`SDO (Secure Device Onboard)`
.. |SGX| replace:: :abbr:`SGX (Software Guard Extensions)`
.. |SLA| replace:: :abbr:`SLA (Service Level Agreement)`
.. |SLAs| replace:: :abbr:`SLAs (Service Level Agreements)`
.. |SM| replace:: :abbr:`SM (Service Manager)`
.. |SMO| replace:: :abbr:`SMO (Service Management and Orchestration)`
.. |SMT| replace:: :abbr:`SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading)`
.. |SNAT| replace:: :abbr:`SNAT (Source Network Address Translation)`
.. |SNMP| replace:: :abbr:`SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)`
.. |SoCs| replace:: :abbr:`SoCs (System-on-Chips)`
.. |SPG| replace:: :abbr:`SPG (Subcloud Peer Group)`
.. |SPGs| replace:: :abbr:`SPGs (Subcloud Peer Groups)`
.. |SPO| replace:: :abbr:`SPO (Security Profiles Operator)`
.. |SRIOV| replace:: :abbr:`SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization)`
.. |SRIOVs| replace:: :abbr:`SR-IOVs (Single Root I/O Virtualizations)`
.. |SRDF| replace:: :abbr:`SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility)`
.. |SRP| replace:: :abbr:`SRP (Storage Resource Pool)`
.. |SSD| replace:: :abbr:`SSD (Solid State Drive)`
.. |SSDs| replace:: :abbr:`SSDs (Solid State Drives)`
.. |SSH| replace:: :abbr:`SSH (Secure Shell)`
.. |SSL| replace:: :abbr:`SSL (Secure Socket Layer)`
.. |SSSD| replace:: :abbr:`SSSD (System Security Services Daemon)`
.. |SSHD| replace:: :abbr:`SSHD (Secure Shell Daemon)`
.. |STP| replace:: :abbr:`STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)`
.. |SWACT| replace:: :abbr:`SWACT (SWitch ACTivity)`
.. |SWQ| replace:: :abbr:`SWQ (Shared Work Queue)`
.. |TAI| replace:: :abbr:`TAI (International Atomic Time)`
.. |T-BC| replace:: :abbr:`T-BC (Telecom Boundary Clock)`
.. |TBF| replace:: :abbr:`TBF (Token Bucket Filter)`
.. |TCP| replace:: :abbr:`TCP (Transition Control Protocol)`
.. |TDP| replace:: :abbr:`TDP (Thermal Design Power)`
.. |TFTP| replace:: :abbr:`TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)`
.. |T-GM| replace:: :abbr:`T-GM (Telecom Grand Primary)`
.. |TLS| replace:: :abbr:`TLS (Transport Layer Security)`
.. |ToR| replace:: :abbr:`ToR (Top-of-Rack)`
.. |TPM| replace:: :abbr:`TPM (Trusted Platform Module)`
.. |TPMs| replace:: :abbr:`TPMs (Trusted Platform Modules)`
.. |TTL| replace:: :abbr:`TTL (Time-to-live)`
.. |UDP| replace:: :abbr:`UDP (User Datagram Protocol)`
.. |UDS| replace:: :abbr:`UDS (Unix Domain Socket)`
.. |UEFI| replace:: :abbr:`UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)`
.. |UFT| replace:: :abbr:`UFT (Unified Flow Tool)`
.. |USM| replace:: :abbr:`USM (Unified Software Management)`
.. |UUID| replace:: :abbr:`UUID (Universally Unique Identifier)`
.. |UUIDs| replace:: :abbr:`UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers)`
.. |vCPU| replace:: :abbr:`vCPU (Virtual Central Processing Unit)`
.. |vCPUs| replace:: :abbr:`vCPUs (Virtual Central Processing Units)`
.. |VF| replace:: :abbr:`VF (Virtual Function)`
.. |VFIO| replace:: :abbr:`VFIO (Virtual Function I/O)`
.. |VFs| replace:: :abbr:`VFs (Virtual Functions)`
.. |vGPU| replace:: :abbr:`vGPU (Virtual Graphics Processing Unit)`
.. |vGPUs| replace:: :abbr:`vGPUs (Virtual Graphics Processing Units)`
.. |VIM| replace:: :abbr:`VIM (Virtual Infrastructure Management)`
.. |VLAN| replace:: :abbr:`VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network)`
.. |VLANs| replace:: :abbr:`VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks)`
.. |VM| replace:: :abbr:`VM (Virtual Machine)`
.. |VMs| replace:: :abbr:`VMs (Virtual Machines)`
.. |VMI| replace:: :abbr:`VMI (Virtual Machine Instance)`
.. |VMIs| replace:: :abbr:`VMIs (Virtual Machine Instances)`
.. |VMIM| replace:: :abbr:`VMIM (Virtual Machine Instance Migration)`
.. |VMIRS| replace:: :abbr:`VMIRS (Virtual Machine Instance Replica Set)`
.. |VNC| replace:: :abbr:`VNC (Virtual Network Computing)`
.. |VNF| replace:: :abbr:`VNF (Virtual Network Function)`
.. |VNFs| replace:: :abbr:`VNFs (Virtual Network Functions)`
.. |VNI| replace:: :abbr:`VNI (VXLAN Network Interface)`
.. |VNIC| replace:: :abbr:`VNIC (Virtual Network Interface Card)`
.. |VNIs| replace:: :abbr:`VNIs (VXLAN Network Interfaces)`
.. |VPC| replace:: :abbr:`VPC (Virtual Port Channel)`
.. |vRAN| replace:: :abbr:`vRAN (virtualized Radio Access Network)`
.. |VRB| replace:: :abbr:`VRB (vRAN Boost)`
.. |VRF| replace:: :abbr:`VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding)`
.. |VRFs| replace:: :abbr:`VRFs (Virtual Routing and Forwarding)`
.. |VTEP| replace:: :abbr:`VTEP (Virtual Tunnel End Point)`
.. |VXLAN| replace:: :abbr:`VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network)`
.. |VXLANs| replace:: :abbr:`VXLANs (Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networks)`
.. |WAD| replace:: :abbr:`WAD (Windows Active Directory)`
.. |XML| replace:: :abbr:`XML (eXtensible Markup Language)`
.. |YAML| replace:: :abbr:`YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language)`