EMC Connectrix B Series Hardware Reference Manual page 91

Fabric Name
Fabric Port Count
Fabric Services
Fabric Topology
Failover
FAN
Fan-in
Fan-out
FC-0
FC-1
FC-2
FC-3
FC-4
FC-AL-3
FCC
FC-CT
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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.
The act that causes control to pass from one redundant unit to
another.
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.
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that handles standards and profiles
for mapping upper-level protocols such as SCSI and IP onto the Fibre
Channel Protocol.
The Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop standard defined by ANSI.
Defined on top of the FC-PH standards.
Federal Communications Commission.
Fibre Channel common transport.
Glossary
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