EMC Connectrix DS-32M2, User Manual

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Glossary
Fabric One or more switching devices that interconnect Fibre Channel
N_Ports, and route Fibre Channel frames based on destination IDs in
the frame headers.
Fabric Element Any active switch or director in the fabric.
Fabric Login Process used by N_Ports to establish their operating parameters
including the presence or absence of a fabric, paths to other N_Ports,
and specific operating characteristics for each port.
Fabric Manager Software application that is the system management framework and
the user interface for managing EMC Fibre Channel connectivity
products. The Connectrix Manager can run either locally on the
Connectrix service processor or remotely on a user workstation.
Fabric Port Physical interface within the fabric, which attaches to an N_Port
through a point-to-point full duplex link connection.
Failover The process of detecting a failure on an active Connectrix switch FRU
and the automatic transition of functions to a backup FRU.
Fan-in/Fan-out Terms used to describe the server:storage ratio, where a graphic
representation of a 1:n (fan-in) or n:1 (fan-out) logical topology looks
like a hand-held fan, with the wide end toward n.
A fan-in or fan-out rate is often referred to as just the n part of the
ratio; for example, a 1:6 fan-in is also called a fan-in rate of 6.
FCP A standard Fibre Channel protocol used to run SCSI over Fibre
Channel.
FC-SW The Fibre Channel Fabric standard.
Fibre A general term used to cover all physical media types supported by
the Fibre Channel specification, such as optical fiber, twisted pair, and
coaxial cable.
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