Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.
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- adjective computing Without the use of
floppy disks .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term diskless is not used because it is ambiguous. xCAT also includes a number of post provisioning administration tools, e.g.:
Linux Magazine 2009
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The new 'diskless' system allowed the comrades to decipher their own messages and had been sent to them a while earlier, but I had warned them not to use it for communications as we were uncertain of its strength.
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The new 'diskless' system allowed the comrades to decipher their own messages and had been sent to them a while earlier, but I had warned them not to use it for communications as we were uncertain of its strength.
Talking To Vula 1989
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Flying Fox wrote: The basic idea for "diskless" was to have a barebones build with no HDD but an optical / usb drive, you boot it up and it starts folding.
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The basic idea for "diskless" was to have a barebones build with no HDD but an optical / usb drive, you boot it up and it starts folding.
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Other improvements that Microsoft called out in the beta server include new configuration and deployment options such as diskless boot, mixed-version clusters, and support for a remote head node database.
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In five years, I expect that ordering a blade chassis or a server with local disk to be the rarity, while diskless virtualization host servers will be the norm, with virtualization and SANs as common as keyboards.
Five-year plan: 8 problems IT must solve Paul Venezia 2010
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The client is generally a diskless, power-sipping, thin client system that does little or nothing more than connect to the VDI infrastructure.
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They used to be called a graphic terminal and is today is also called a hybrid client or diskless node.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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They used to be called a graphic terminal and is today is also called a hybrid client or diskless node.
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