SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager User’s Guide
Management Tool for QLogic iSCSI Host Bus Adapters
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SPIFFI
Specification for platform-independent
failover and failback integration. It is a
cooperative effort that defines a non
vendor-specific failover mechanism.
storage area network
See
SAN
.
sysfs
A virtual file system provided by the 2.6
Linux kernel. Sysfs exports information
about devices and drivers from the kernel
device model to userspace, and is also
used for configuration.
target
Devices, such an
HBA
card, which
mediate data in a computer network. The
term
device
is used interchangeably with
target
and
target device
. See
device
.
target binding
Refers to the process in which the HBA
driver binds a target ID using a target's
world wide port name (WWPN) or port ID.
This enables the target ID to always
connect to the WWPN or port ID across
reboots regardless of SAN reconfigura-
tions.
