Glossary - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

Glossary

This glossary defines acronyms and terms used in this guide and is not a comprehensive glossary of
computer terms.
3DC
AAA
access
authorization
ACL
ACU
ADG
AES
AG
arbitrated loop
ARL
ATM
BB_credits
BCN
B-series
CA
cascaded switch
CBC
CEE
CFS
CHAP
Three Data Center. A storage configuration that uses XP storage systems.
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. A security protocol.
A fabric security method that provides frame-level access control in hardware
and verifies the SID-DID combination of each frame. Also known as hard zoning.
Access control list. A data protection feature used to restrict access to data
resources based on defined policies.
Array Configuration Utility. A utility used to control LUN access.
Advanced Data Guarding.
Advanced Encryption Standard. An encryption security technology.
Access Gateway. A software-enable feature that allows B-series Blade switches
to function as port aggregators.
See FC-AL.
Adaptive Rate Limiting.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode. A communications networking technology for
LANs and WANs that carries information in fixed-size cells of 53 bytes (5 protocol
bytes and 48 data bytes).
Buffer-to-buffer credits.
Backward Congestion Notification.
Fibre Channel switches manufactured for HP by Brocade Communications
Systems, Inc.
Certificate authority.
The destination director attached to the control unit.
Cipher-block chaining. A data encryption cipher mode.
Converged Enhanced Ethernet.
Cisco Fabric Services. A C-series port security feature.
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol. An IP SAN security technology.
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