Qlogic QLA2 Series, User Manual

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SANsurfer FC/CNA HBA CLI User’s Guide
Command Line Interface for QLogic FC and FCoE Adapters
Glossary-4 SN0054614-00 K
fabric loop port
See FL_Port .
fabric port
See F_Port .
fabric switch
Also, switched fabric . A fabric switch
connects multiple devices from indepen-
dent FC-arbitrated loops (FC-ALs) and
point-to-point topologies into a fabric using
FC switches.
Fast! UTIL
QLogic Fast! UTIL FC adapter BIOS utility.
FC
Fibre Channel is a high-speed serial inter-
face technology that supports other higher
layer protocols such as SCSI and IP, and
is primarily used in SANs. Standardized
under ANSI in 1994.
FCode
A type of boot code designed for use on
Sun
®
's SPARC
®
or Macintosh
®
hardware
platforms. See also boot code and Flash .
FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet is a new
technology defined by the T11 standards
body that allows traditional FC storage
networking traffic to travel over an
Ethernet link by encapsulating FC frames
inside Layer 2 Ethernet frames. For more
information, visit
www.fcoe.com .
Fibre Channel
See FC .
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
See FCoE .
FL_Port
Fabric loop port. In FC, the fabric switch is
capable of FC arbitrated loop operations
and is connected to one or more NL_Ports
by an FC arbitrated loop. An FL_Port
becomes a shared entry point for public
NL_Port devices to an FC fabric. FL_Ports
are intermediate ports in virtual
point-to-point links between end ports that
do not reside on the same loop, for
example NL_Port to FL_Port to F_Port to
N_Port through a single FC fabric switch.
Flash
Non-volatile memory holding the boot
code. At times, Flash and boot code are
used interchangeably. See also
boot code .
Flash BIOS
A QLA2 xxx adapter's Flash programmable
read-only memory (PROM) contains the
code that allows booting from the adapter
at startup.
G_Port
Generic port. A port that can operate as
either an E_Port or an F_Port. A G_Port
can determine operating mode at switch
port initialization: F_Port when an N_Port
attachment is determined or E_Port when
an E_Port attachment is determined. See
E_Port , F_Port , FL_Port , L_Port , N_Port ,
NL_Port .
generic port
See G_Port .
HBA
Host bus adapter. See adapter .
iiDMA
Intelligent interleaved direct memory
access. A QLogic patent-pending feature
that ensures maximum link efficiency.