HP AA-RSB6B-TE manual Fcia, Fcp, Flogi, Fsacc, Fspf

Glossary

FCIA

Fibre Channel Industry Association. An international organization of Fibre Channel industry professionals. Among other things, provides oversight of ANSI and industry developed standards.

FCP

Fibre Channel Protocol; mapping of protocols onto the Fibre Channel standard protocols. For example, SCSI FCP maps SCSI-3 onto Fibre Channel.

Fibre Channel Transport

A protocol service that supports communication between Fibre Channel service providers.

FL_Port

Fabric Loop Port; a port that is able to transmit under fabric protocol and also has arbitrated loop capabilities. Can be used to connect an NL_Port to a switch.

FLOGI

Fabric Login; the process by which an N_Port determines whether a fabric is present, and if so, exchanges service parameters with it.

Frame

The Fibre Channel structure used to transmit data between ports. Consists of a start-of-frame delimiter, header, any optional headers, the data payload, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), and an end-of-frame delimiter. There are two types of frames: Link control frames (transmission acknowledgements, etc.) and data frames.

FS_ACC

Fibre Channel Services Accept. The information unit used to indicate acceptance of a request for a Fibre Channel service.

FSP

Fibre Channel Service Protocol; the common protocol for all fabric services, transparent to the fabric type or topology.

FSPF

Fabric Shortest Path First; the routing protocol for Fibre Channel switches.

Full Fabric

The licensing that allows multiple E_Ports on a switch, making it possible to create multiple ISL links.

Full-duplex

A mode of communication that allows the same port to simultaneously transmit and receive frames.

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