Notice To The Reader; Key Terms - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

ATTENTION
An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.
CAUTION
A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you or cause
damage to hardware, firmware, software, or data.
DANGER
A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely
hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of these conditions
or situations.

Notice to the reader

This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations. These
trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations.
These references are made for informational purposes only.
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Cisco Systems, Inc.
Oracle Corporation.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Red Hat, Inc.
Emulex Corporation
QLogic Corporation

Key terms

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at: http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary.
For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the Brocade Glossary.
The following terms are used in this manual to describe Access Gateway mode and its components.
Access Gateway (AG)
Device
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Fabric OS mode for switches that reduces SAN (storage area network)
deployment complexity by leveraging NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization).
Any host or target device with a distinct WWN. Devices may be physical or virtual.
Referenced Trademarks and Products
Cisco
Sun, Solaris
Netscape
Red Hat, Red Hat Network, Maximum RPM, Linux Undercover
Emulex
QLogic
Access Gateway Administrator's Guide
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