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Glossary

GB

Gigabyte. A unit of measurement defining either:

■A data transfer rate. See also GBps

■A storage or memory capacity of 1,073,741,824 (230) bytes.

GBps

Gigabytes per second. A measurement of the rate at which the transfer of bytes of data occurs. A GBps is a transfer rate of 1,000,000,000 (109) bits per second.

See also GB.

Giga (G)

The notation to represent 109 or 1 billion (1,000,000,000).

HBA

Host Bus Adapter.

See FCA.

host

A system that has data path access to the virtual disk through a logical unit number (LUN) defined on the system.

Host Bus Adapter

See FCA.

host computer

See host.

host ports

A connection point to one or more hosts through a Fibre Channel fabric. A host is a computer that runs user applications and that uses (or can potentially use) one or more of the virtual disks that are created and presented by the controller pair.

host-side ports

See host ports.

hp StorageWorks

The hp trademarked name used to describe the set of rack-mounted enclosures containing controllers, transceivers, I/O modules, EMUs, disk drives, cables, blowers, and power supplies used to design and configure a solution-specific storage system.

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