Users Guide

User’s Guide—QConvergeConsole CLI
2500, 2600, 2700 Series Fibre Channel Adapters
Doc. No. TD-000947 Rev. 1
Janurary 29, 2021 Page 210 Copyright © 2021 Marvell
NVRAM
Non-volatile random access memory. A
type of memory that retains data (configu-
ration settings) even when power is
removed. You can manually configure
NVRAM settings or restore them from a
file.
path
A path to a device is a combination of a
adapter port instance and a target port as
distinct from internal paths in the fabric
network. A fabric network appears to the
operating system as an opaque network
between the adapter (initiator) and the
target.
Because a path is a combination of an
adapter and a target port, it is distinct from
another path if it is accessed through a
different adapter or it is accessing a
different target port. Consequently, when
switching from one path to another, the
driver might be selecting a different
adapter (initiator), a different target port, or
both.
This is important to the driver when
selecting the proper method of failover
notification. It can make a difference to the
target device, which might have to take
different actions when receiving retries of
the request from another initiator or on a
different port.
PCI
Peripheral component interconnect. First
released in 1992, PCI has been rapidly
evolving into a viable replacement for the
ISA bus. It solves many of the problems
with older architectures, while at the same
time delivering a substantial increase in
processing speed. PCI provides a new
way of connecting peripherals to both the
system memory and CPU, with the goal of
alleviating many problems encountered
when installing new cards in an ISA-based
system (IRQ conflicts, address conflicts,
and so on.).
However, unlike MicroChannel, PCI
boards may be used in a system that also
employs other types of devices. In fact, in
many systems, a single slot can accom-
modate either an ISA or PCI board.
PCIe, PCI Express
A third-generation I/O standard that allows
enhanced Ethernet network performance
beyond that of the older peripheral compo-
nent interconnect (PCI) and PCI extended
(PCI-X) desktop and server slots.
peripheral component interface
See PCI.
personality
The term personality appears in different
contexts:
 Adapter level
 Network partition (NPAR function) level