EMC DS-16B2 manual EIA Rack

Glossary

EE_Credit	End to end Credit; the number of receive buffers allocated by a
	recipient port to an originating port. Used by Class 1 and 2 services to
	manage the exchange of frames across the fabric between source and
	destination. See also End- to-end Flow Control and BB_Credit.
EIA Rack	A storage rack that meets the standards set by the Electronics
	Industry Association.
Enabled Zone	The currently enabled configuration of zones. Only one configuration
Configuration	can be enabled at a time. See also Defined Configuration and Zone
	Configuration.
End-to-End Flow	Governs flow of class 1 and 2 frames between N_Ports. See also
Control	EE_Credit.
Error	As applies to Fibre Channel, a missing or corrupted frame, time out,
	loss of synchronization, or loss of signal (link errors). See also Loop
	Failure.
Exchange	The highest level Fibre Channel mechanism used for communication
	between N_Ports. Composed of one or more related sequences, and
	can work in either one or both directions.
Extended Fabrics	A product that runs on Fabric OS and allows creation of a Fibre
	Channel fabric interconnected over distances of up to 100 kilometers.

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F_Port	Fabric Port; a port that is able to transmit under fabric protocol and
	interface over links. Can be used to connect an N_Port to a switch. See
	also FL_Port and Fx_Port.
Fabric	A Fibre Channel network containing two or more switches in
	addition to hosts and devices. May also be referred to as a switched
	fabric. See also Topology, SAN and Cascade.
Fabric Name	The unique identifier assigned to a fabric and communicated during
	login and port discovery.
Fabric OS	The proprietary operating system on switches.
FC-AL-3	The Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop standard defined by ANSI.
	Defined on top of the FC-PH standards.

Departmental Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Procedures Manual

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