Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Using UNIX Commands
- Typographic Conventions
- Shell Prompts
- Related Documentation
- Accessing Sun Documentation Online
- Sun Welcomes Your Comments
- New Features
- Features, Benefits, and Products
- SAN 4.0 Device Names
- On-Demand Node Creation
- Fabric Connection of Hosts
- Cascading of Switches
- Higher Realized Bandwidth
- Support of Multiple Protocols
- Support for More, Heterogeneous Storage Devices
- Support for New Hardware and Software
- Software and Hardware Upgrade
- Building Blocks for More Complex Topologies
- Overall Installation Order
- Configuring the Switch Ethernet Port
- Installing SAN Software for the First Time
- Upgrading Existing SAN Software
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Glossary
This glossary contains a definitions for terms used in this guide.
Terms
AL_PA Arbitrated Loop Physical Address. An AL_PA is an eight-bit value used to
identify a device
attached to a Fibre Channel arbitrated loop.
Ap_Id Attachment Point Identifier. The port identifier for either a host or a storage
device connected to a switch. For example, c0 identifies the host port and
c0::50020f23000063a9 identifies an array.
Cascade
Broadcast Zone Zone type used to filter broadcast traffic away from end nodes that cannot use
or interpret it. A port will broadcast to all ports in the same Broadcast Zone(s)
in which the port is defined. Broadcast zoning is primarily used for doing IP
over Fibre Channel or when mixing IP and SCSI traffic on the switch. These
zones are not yet useful or interesting in Suns current SAN implementations.
Cascade Connection of two or more switches together to increase the number of
available ports or to allow for increased distances between components of the
SAN.
E_port Expansion port used to connect FC -SW2 compliant switches to one another.
Fabric Ports (F_Port) Fabric port on a Fibre Channel switch. Switch ports used to connect to the
fabric capable storage devices, such as the Sun StorEdge T3+ array or Sun
StorEdge 39x0, 69x0 and 99x0 series, and host bus adapters.
Fabric One or more switches in a Fibre Channel network. It is also common to refer to
something as a "Fabric device" or being in "Fabric mode."
Fabric Loop Ports
(FL_Port) A port that is able to transmit under fabric protocol and also has arbitrated
loop capabilities.