Users Guide

User’s Guide—QConvergeConsole CLI
2500, 2600, 2700 Series Fibre Channel Adapters
Doc. No. TD-000947 Rev. 1
Janurary 29, 2021 Page 213 Copyright © 2021 Marvell
SR-IOV
Single root input/output virtualization. A
specification by the PCI SIG that enables a
single PCIe device to appear as multiple,
separate physical PCIe devices. SR-IOV
permits isolation of PCIe resources for
performance, interoperability, and
manageability.
SSL
Secure sockets layer. A cryptographic
protocol that provides communications
security over the Internet.
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 user space, and is also
used for configuration.
target
The storage-device endpoint of a SCSI
session. Initiators request data from
targets. Targets are typically disk-drives,
tape-drives, or other media devices.
Typically a SCSI peripheral device is the
target but an adapter may, in some cases,
be a target. A target can contain many
LUNs.
A target is a device that responds to a
requested by an initiator (the host system).
Peripherals are targets, but for some
commands (for example, a SCSI COPY
command), the peripheral may act as an
initiator.
TCP
Transmission control protocol. A set of
rules to send data in packets over the
Internet protocol.
TLV
Type-length-value. Optional information
that may be encoded as an element inside
of the protocol. The type and length fields
are fixed in size (typically 1–4 bytes), and
the value field is of variable size.
These fields are used as follows:
 Type—A numeric code that indicates
the kind of field that this part of the
message represents.
 Length—The size of the value field
(typically in bytes).
 Value—Variable-sized set of bytes that
contains data for this part of the
message.
type-length-value
See TLV.
UEFI
Unified extensible firmware interface. A
specification detailing an interface that
helps hand off control of the system for the
preboot environment (that is, after the
system is powered on, but before the
operating system starts) to an operating
system, such as Windows or Linux. UEFI
provides a clean interface between
operating systems and platform firmware
at boot time, and supports an architec-
ture-independent mechanism for initial-
izing add-in cards.
unified extensible firmware interface
See UEFI.
virtual LAN
See VLAN.
virtual machine
See VM.
vital product data
See VPD.