User Manual

Glossary
C
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
An authentication technique for confirming the identity of one computer to another.
CmdSN Command sequence number
F
Fabric Connect Connecting a server or mpx110 Fibre Channel port to a Fibre Channel switch to access the EVA
or XP Fibre Channel ports.
FC Fibre Channel technology
See also Fibre Channel.
FCIP Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol
Fibre Channel A serial data transport infrastructure and protocol used to implement SANs. See also http://
www.fibrechannel.org/ and http://www.t11.org/.
G
GbE Gigabit Ethernet
Packet-based signaling technology that transmits data at throughput speeds of up to 1,000 Mb/s
or 1 Gb/s.
H
high availability Refers to the availability of resources in a computer system if there are component failures in the
system.
I
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
initiator A device that begins an iSCSI transaction by issuing a command to another device (the iSCSI
target), giving it a task to perform.
IP Internet Protocol
The standard Internet protocol for moving packets of information from one computer to another.
Commonly combined with TCP in the phrase TCP/IP.
IP SAN A SAN created using the iSCSI protocol to connect servers and storage over a GbE network
See also iSCSI.
iSCSI Internet SCSI
An IP-based standard for linking data storage devices over a network and transferring data by
carrying SCSI commands over IP networks.
iSCSI CRC iSCSI cyclic redundancy check
A shortened cyclic code check used for error detection.
iSNS Internet Storage Name Service
A protocol designed to facilitate the automated discovery, management, and configuration of
iSCSI and Fibre Channel devices on a TCP/IP network.
L
LIP Fibre Channel loop initialization procedure
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