Acronyms

Acronyms
GCS

Global Cache Services

in memory database containing current locks and awaiting locks, also known as PCM

GES

Global Enqueue
Services

coordinates the requests of all global enqueues uses the GCS, also known as non-PCM

GRD

Global Resource
Directory

all resources available to the cluster (formed and managed by GCS and GES), see GRDfor more det

GRM

Global Resource
Manager

helps to coordinate and communicate the locks requests between Oracle processes

GSD

Global Services
Daemon

runs on each node with one GSD process per node. The GSD coordinates with the cluster manager t
such as the DBCA, EM, and the SRVCTL utility to execute administrative job tasks such as instance
not an Oracle instance background process and is therefore not started with the Oracle instance

PCM
(IDLM)

Parallel Cache
Management

formly know as (integrated) Distributed Lock Manager, its another name for GCS

Resource n/a

it is a identifiable entity it basically has a name or a reference, it can be a area in memory, a disk

a resource that can be accessed by all the nodes within the cluster examples would be the followin

Resource
n/a
(Global)

Data Buffer Cache Block

Transaction Enqueue

Database Data Structures

LVB

Lock Value Block

contains a small amount of data regarding the lock

TRFC

Traffic Controller

controls the DLM traffic between instances (messaging tickets)