Compaq ProLiant 1600 Administrator's Manual page 173

Fibre Channel
Array
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Host Adapter
Fibre Channel
Host Controller
Fibre Channel
array controller
Heartbeat
High availability
Host
Host bus adapter
Host bus adapter
failover
Hot pluggable
Hot spare
Interconnect
See RA4000 (Compaq StorageWorks RAID
Array 4000)
An IEEE standard for providing high-speed data
transfer among workstations, mainframes,
supercomputers, desktop computers, storage devices,
and display devices.
See Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel Host
Adapter.
See Also host bus adapter.
See Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel Host
Adapter.
See Also host bus adapter.
See Compaq StorageWorks RA4000 array controller.
A signal transmitted between cluster nodes to indicate
each node's operating state.
A term used to identify a computer system that can
continuously deliver services to its clients
99.9 percent of the time (no more than 8.5 hours of
downtime per year).
The central or controlling computer in a system of
computers connected by communications links.
A card used to connect a peripheral to the host server.
Also called host adapter.
The process of moving the operation of all I/O from
one host bus adapter to another host bus adapter. This
can be accomplished manually using
Compaq Redundancy Manager or automatically upon
failure of one of the adapters.
Computer components that can be removed and
replaced without powering down the system.
A computer component that is powered on, not
actively processing data, and awaiting a request to
take over operation of failed component.
A physical connection between cluster nodes that
transmits intracluster communication.
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