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Fabric
Fabric Manager
Fabric Mode
Fabric Name
Fabric Port Count
Fabric Services
Fabric Topology
FAN
Fan-in
Fan-out
FC-0
FC-1
FC-2
FC-3
A Fibre Channel network containing two or more switches in
addition to hosts and devices. May also be referred to as a switched
fabric. See also Topology, and Cascade.
An optionally licensed software. Fabric Manager is a GUI that allows
for fabric-wide administration and management. Switches can be
treated as groups, and actions (such as firmware downloads) can be
performed simultaneously.
One of two possible modes for an L_Port, in which the L_Port is
connected to another port that is not loop capable, using fabric
protocol.
The unique identifier assigned to a fabric and communicated during
login and port discovery.
The number of ports available for connection by nodes in a fabric.
Codes that describe the communication to and from any well-known
address.
The arrangement of switches that form a fabric.
Fabric address notification. Retains the AL_PA and fabric address
when a loop reinitializes, if the switch supports FAN.
The ratio of hosts to storage devices; the view of the SAN from the
storage port's perspective.
The ratio of storage devices to hosts; the view of the SAN from the
host port's perspective.
Lowest layer of Fibre Channel transport. Represents physical media.
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that contains the 8b/10b encoding
scheme.
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that handles framing and protocol,
frame format, sequence/exchange management, and ordered set
usage.
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that contains common services used
by multiple N_Ports in a node.
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