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SANsurfer iSCSI HBA CLI User’s Guide Command Line Interface for QLogic iSCSI Host Bus Adapters

In NetWare, the required drivers include:

„Host Adapter Module (HAM). HAM is the driver component associated with the host adapter hardware. It provides the functionality to route requests to the bus where a specified device is attached.

„Custom Device Module (CDM). The drive component associated with storage devices. It provides the functionality to build device-specific commands from I/O messages received from NetWare’s Media Manager.

E_Port

Expansion port. A port in an FC switch that connects to another FC switch or bridge device by an inter-switch link. E_Ports are used to link FC switches to form a multi-switch fabric.

echo diagnostic test

Transmits a received signal back to the sender to verify the integrity of the device.

Enhanced Ethernet

Also called DataCenter Ethernet or Converged Enhanced Ethernet) refers to new enhancements to the existing Ethernet standard that eliminate Ethernet’s inherently lossy nature and make 10Gb Ethernet a viable storage networking transport.

F_Port

The “Fabric” port in a FC fabric switch provides a point-to-point link attachment to

asingle N_Port. F_Ports are intermediate ports in virtual point-to-point links between end ports, for example N_Port to F_Port to F_Port to N_Port using a single FC fabric switch.

fabric

Afabric consists of cross-connected FC devices and switches.

fabric switch

Also, switched fabric. A fabric switch connects multiple devices from indepen- dent FC-arbitrated loops (FC-ALs) and point-to-point topologies into a fabric using FC switches.

Fast!UTIL

QLogic Fast!UTIL FC HBA BIOS utility.

FCode

A type of boot code for Sun's SPARC platforms. See boot code and Flash.

FC

Fibre Channel is a high-speed serial inter- face technology that supports other higher layer protocols such as SCSI and IP.

FCoE

Fibre Channel over Ethernet is a new technology defined by the T11 standards body that allows traditional FC storage networking traffic to travel over an Ethernet link by encapsulating FC frames inside Layer 2 Ethernet frames. For more information, visit www.fcoe.com.

FL_Port

Fabric loop port. In an FC, the fabric switch is capable of FC Arbitrated Loop opera- tions and is connected to one or more NL_Ports by an FC Arbitrated Loop. An FL_Port becomes a shared entry point for public NL_Port devices to an FC fabric. FL_Ports are intermediate ports in virtual point-to-point links between end ports that do not reside on the same loop, for example NL_Port to FL_Port to F_Port to N_Port through a single FC fabric switch.

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