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- |
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. |
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. |
| F |
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. |
| The Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop standard defined by ANSI. |
| Defined on top of the |
Departmental Switch Model
