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Glossary
This glossary provides definitions for the
terminology used for the IBM TotalStorage FAStT.
This glossary also provides definitions for the
terminology used for the IBM TotalStorage FAStT
Storage Manager.
This glossary defines technical terms and
abbreviations used in this document. If you do not
find the term you are looking for, see the
IBM
Glossary of Computing Terms located at
www.ibm.com/networking/nsg/nsgmain.htm
This glossary also includes terms and definitions
from:
v
Information Technology Vocabulary by
Subcommittee 1, Joint Technical Committee 1,
of the International Organization for
Standardization and the International
Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC1). Definitions are identified by the
symbol (I) after the definition; definitions taken
from draft international standards, committee
drafts, and working papers by ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC1 are identified by the symbol (T) after
the definition, indicating that final agreement
has not yet been reached among the
participating National Bodies of SC1.
v
IBM Glossary of Computing Terms . New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1994.
The following cross-reference conventions are
used in this glossary:
See Refers you to (a) a term that is the
expanded form of an abbreviation or
acronym, or (b) a synonym or more
preferred term.
See also
Refers you to a related term.
This glossary includes terms for the IBM FAStT
Storage Manager Version 8.30 for Microsoft
Windows NT and Windows 2000 environments. A
glossary also exists in the Help section of the
Storage Manager Enterprise Management window
and the Storage Subsystem Management window.
This glossary also includes terms and definitions
from:
IBM Glossary of Computing Terms , available
online at the following Web site:
www.ibm.com/ibm/terminology/
The following cross-reference convention is used
in this glossary:
See Refers you to (a) a term that is the
expanded form of an abbreviation or an
acronym, or (b) a synonym or more
preferred term.
See also
Refers you to a related term.
Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT). A Java graphical
user interface (GUI).
accelerated graphics port (AGP). A bus specification
that gives low-cost 3D graphics cards faster access to
main memory on personal computers than the usual
PCI bus. AGP reduces the overall cost of creating
high-end graphics subsystems by using existing system
memory.
access volume. A special logical drive that allows the
host-agent to communicate with the controllers in the
storage subsystem.
adapter. A printed circuit assembly that transmits user
data (I/Os) between the internal bus of the host system
and the external Fibre Channel link and vice versa. Also
called an I/O adapter, host adapter, or FC adapter.
advanced technology (AT) bus architecture. A bus
standard for IBM compatibles. It extends the XT bus
architecture to 16 bits and also allows for bus
mastering, although only the first 16 MB of main
memory are available for direct access.
agent. A server program that receives virtual
connections from the network manager (the client
program) in an SNMP-TCP/IP network-managing
environment.
AGP. See accelerated graphics port .
AL_PA. See arbitrated loop physical address .
arbitrated loop. A shared 100 MBps Fibre Channel
transport structured as a loop and supporting up to 126
devices and one fabric attachment. A port must
successfully arbitrate before a circuit can be
established.
arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). One of
three existing Fibre Channel topologies, in which two to
126 ports are interconnected serially in a single loop
circuit. Access to the FC-AL is controlled by an
arbitration scheme. The FC-AL topology supports all
classes of service and guarantees in-order delivery of
FC frames when the originator and responder are on
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