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SANsurfer FC HBA Manager User’s Guide Management Tool for QLogic FC and FCoE Adapters

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SCSI

Small Computer System Interface. A hardware bus specification and a packet-oriented protocol specification for communicating on that bus. SCSI over FC uses the packet-oriented protocol to communicate with storage devices on the FC.

SPIFFI

Specification for Platform-Independent Failover and Failback Integration. A cooperative effort that defines a non vendor-specific failover mechanism.

SYSFS

A virtual file system provided by the 2.6 Linux kernel. Sysfs exports information about devices and drivers from the kernel device model to userspace, and is also used for configuration.

T11

A subcommittee of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) that establishes the standards for Fibre Channel technology.

Target

Devices, such an HBA card, which mediate data in a computer network. The term device is used interchangeably with target and target device. See Device.

Target binding

The process in which the HBA driver binds a target ID using a target's world wide port name (WWPN) or port ID. This enables the target ID to always connect to the WWPN or port ID across reboots regard- less of SAN configurations.

WWPN

World Wide Port Name. A unique name assigned to a each port on a device. One WWNN (world wide node name) may contain multiple WWPN addresses.

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