Users Guide

User’s Guide—QLogic Control Suite CLI
45000/41000 Series Adapters and Adapters Based on 578xx Controllers
Doc No. TD-000971 Rev. 1
January 29, 2021 Page 217 Copyright © 2021 Marvell
port instance
The number of the port in the system.
Each adapter may have one or multiple
ports, identified with regard to the adapter
as port 0, port 1, and so forth. To avoid
confusion when dealing with a system
containing numerous ports, each port is
assigned a port instance number when the
system boots up. So port 0 on an adapter
might have a port instance number of 8, for
example, if it is the eighth port discovered
by the system.
RDMA
Remote direct memory access. The ability
for one node to write directly to the
memory of another (with address and size
semantics) over a network. This capability
is an important feature of VI networks.
RDMA over Converged Ethernet
See RoCE, RoCEv2.
remote direct memory access
See RDMA.
RoCE, RoCEv2
RDMA over Converged Ethernet. A
network protocol that allows remote direct
memory access (RDMA) over a converged
or a non-converged Ethernet network.
RoCE is a link layer protocol that allows
communication between any two hosts in
the same Ethernet broadcast domain.
secure socket layer
See SSL.
simple network management protocol
See SNMP.
single root input/output virtualization
See SR-IOV.
SNMP
Simple network management protocol.
SNMP is a networking protocol that
enables you to monitor the router using
third-party applications that use SNMP.
SSL
Secure socket layer. A protocol that
secures connections to the switch for
Enterprise Fabric Suite, QuickTools, the
API, and SMI-S.
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.
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.
TCP/IP offload engine
See TOE.