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EIA Rack
A storage rack that meets the standards set by the Electronics Industry Association.
Enabled Zone Configuration
The currently enabled configuration of zones. Only one configuration can be enabled at a
time.
End-to-end Flow Control
Governs flow of class 1 and 2 frames between N_Ports. See also EE_Credit.
Error
As applies to Fibre Channel, a missing or corrupted frame, time-out, loss of
synchronization, or loss of signal (link errors).
Exchange
The highest level Fibre Channel mechanism used for communication between N_Ports.
Composed of one or more related sequences, and can work in either one or both directions.
F_Port
Fabric Port; a port that is able to transmit under fabric protocol and interface over links.
Can be used to connect an N_Port to a switch.
Fabric Name
The unique identifier assigned to a fabric and communicated during login and port
discovery.
Fabric
A Fibre Channel network containing two or more switches in addition to hosts and devices.
May also be referred to as a switched fabric. See also Topology, SAN, Cascade.
FC-AL-3
The Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop standard defined by ANSI. Defined on top of the
FC-PH standards.
FC-FLA
The Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attach standard defined by ANSI.
FCIA
Fibre Channel Industry Association. An international organization of Fibre Channel
industry professionals. Among other things, provides oversight of ANSI and industry
developed standards
FCP
Fibre Channel Protocol; mapping of protocols onto the Fibre Channel standard protocols.
For example, SCSI FCP maps SCSI-3 onto Fibre Channel.
Fibre Channel Transport
A protocol service that supports communication between Fibre Channel service providers.
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