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Glossary and acronyms
HCM
Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
IOC
ITL
LLDP
Login BB_Credit
Loop Initialization Primitive Sequence
Lossless Ethernet MAC
LUN
LUN mapping
MAC
MIB
MTU
N_Port
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Host Bus Adapter.
Host Connectivity Manager.
A hardware facility in a node that provides an interface attachment.
I/O Controller.
Initiator-Target-LUN. An Initiator Port (HBA controller) talks to one Target Port
addressing one LUN.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol.
On an arbitrated loop, a value equal to the number of receive buffers that a
receiving NL_Port guarantees to have available when a loop circuit is
established. Login BB_Credit is communicated in the FLOGI, PLOGI, or pDISC
link services.
A primitive sequence used to begin the arbitrated loop initialization process.
A full duplex Ethernet MAC supporting at least 2.5KB jumbo frames and
implementing extensions to avoid Ethernet frame loss resulting from
congestion.
Logical unit number. An address for an individual disk drive or virtual partition
(volume) within a storage device.
A process that makes a LUN available to some hosts and unavailable to other
hosts.
Media Access Control.
Management Information Base.
Maximum Transfer Unit.
A node port (a Fibre Channel host or storage port in a fabric or point-to-point
connection) that is assumed to be incapable of arbitrated loop operations.
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