HP Fibre Channel Fabric Migration Guide

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Glossary
A
AL Boot - the process of booting
from a device that is on the same
arbitrated loop as the hostadapter.
No switch is required.
Arbitrated Loop - a Fibre
Channel topology where
information is routed around the
loop from port to port until it
arrives at its destination. This is a
private loop configuration.
Area - the second field of the
3-byte address assigned to an
attached N_Port in a Fabric
configuration. The Area is
generally associated with an F/FL
port on a switch.
C
Cascading - an interconnection of
individual switches used to create
larger Fabric configurations.
D
DFA (Direct Fabric Attachment) -
a configuration in which both the
host initiator and the target device
are attached to the same switch
(N_Port to F_Port).
Domain - the first field of the
3-byte address assigned to an
attached N_Port in a Fabric
configuration. The domain is
generally associated with an
instance of the switch.
F
Fabric - a term used to describe
an interconnection of Fibre
Channel host ports, device ports
and switch ports where frames
from a source N_Port are routed
through a switch (Fabric) to a
destination N_Port based on the
frame’s destination address.
Fabric Boot - the process of
booting from a device that is
accessed by a Fibre Channel
switch.
Fabric Device Addressing - the
assigning of addresses to attached
N_Ports in the Fabric. The address
is determined by the switch and is
comprised of three fields: Domain,
Area, and Port.
FC-FLA (Fibre Channel Fabric
Loop Attach) - the ANSI technical
report that describes the rules by
which NL_Ports and FL_Ports
communicate with each other.