Compaq ProLiant Clusters HA/F100 Administrator's Manual page 194

Ethernet
Failback
Failover
Fault tolerance
Fibre Channel
Array
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Host Adapter
Fibre Channel
Host Controller
Fibre Channel
array controller
Heartbeat
High availability
Host
A standard network protocol that primarily operates
on a physical level, using network interface cards and
cabling to transmit data between computers. Transfer
rates are normally 1,000 or 10,000 megabits per
second.
The process of moving the operation of a previously
failed cluster group from the secondary cluster node
back to the primary node.
The process of moving the operation of a cluster
group from the primary node to the secondary node in
the same cluster.
A design concept that allows continued operation of a
computer entity when a fault (or failure) is
encountered. Tolerance is achieved primarily by
designing redundant elements into the entity.
See Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000/4100.
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 Bus
Adapter/P.
See Also host bus adapter.
See Compaq StorageWorks Fibre Channel Host Bus
Adapter.
See Also host bus adapter.
See Compaq StorageWorks RA4000 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.
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