HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Manual page 9

FAN
Fan-in
Fan-out
FastWrite
F_BSY
FCA
FC-0
FC-1
FC-2
FC-3
FC-4
FC-AL
FC-AV
FC-CT
FC-FC Routing Service
FC-FG
FC-FLA
FC-FS
FC-GS
FC-GS-2
FC-GS-3
FCIP
FCoE
Brocade SAN Glossary
1) Fabric Address Notification. Keeps the AL_PA and fabric address when
loop re-initializes if the switch supports FAN.
2) File Area Network. The set of systems and software that enable
centralized management of file data to improve user and administrative
efficiency.
The ratio of hosts to storage devices. It is the view of the SAN from the
storage port's perspective.
The ratio of storage devices to hosts. It is the view of the SAN from the host
port's perspective.
A Fabric OS feature running on top of FCIP that accelerates Write operations
from a host to a target device; eliminates the latency associated with long
distance in FCIP.
Fabric Port Busy Frame. A frame issued by the fabric to indicate that a frame
cannot be delivered because the fabric or destination N_Port is busy.
Fibre Channel Association.
Lowest layer on Fibre Channel transport; represents the physical media.
This layer contains the 8b/10b encoding scheme.
This layer handles framing and protocol, frame format, sequence/exchange
management, and ordered set usage.
This layer contains common services used by multiple N_Ports in a node.
This layer handles standards and profiles for mapping upper-level protocols
such as SCSI and IP onto the Fibre Channel Protocol.
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop.
Fibre Channel Audio Visual.
Fibre Channel Common Transport.
A service that extends hierarchical networking capabilities to Fibre Channel
fabrics. It enables devices located on separate fabrics to communicate
without merging the fabrics. It also enables the creation of LSANs.
Fibre Channel Generic requirements.
Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attachment.
Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling.
Fibre Channel Generic Services.
Second-generation Fibre Channel Generic Services.
Third-generation Fibre Channel Generic Services.
Fibre Channel over IP protocol.
Fibre Channel over 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet networks.
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