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F
fabric The hardware that connects workstations
and servers to storage devices in a SAN.
The SAN fabric enables
any-server-to-any-storage device
connectivity through the use of
fibre-channel switching technology.
FC-AL Also known as arbitrated loop. A
fibre-channel topology that requires no
fibre-channel switches. Devices are
connected in a one-way loop fashion.
FC-HBA
Fibre-channel host bus adapter.
FC
See Fibre Channel.
Fibre Channel
Serial data transfer architecture developed
by a consortium of computer and mass
storage device manufacturers and now
being standardized by ANSI.
functional area
One of the high level groupings of icons
(functional modules) of the left-hand pane
of the IBM XIV Storage Management GUI
screen. For example: Monitor,
Configuration or Volume management.
See functional module.
functional module
One of the icons of a functional area, on
the left-hand pane of the IBM XIV Storage
Management GUI screen. For example,
System (under Monitor) or Hosts and
LUNs (under Configuration). See
functional area.
G
Graphical user interface (GUI)
On-screen user interface supported by a
mouse and a keyboard.
GUI
See Graphical user interface (GUI).
H
H/W
Hardware.
HBA
Host bus adapter.
host interface module
The interface data module serves external
host requests with the ability to store
data. A fully-configured rack has 6
interface data modules.
host
A port name of a host that can connect to
the system. The system supports fibre
channel and iSCSI hosts.
I
I/O
Input/output.
image snapshot
A snapshot that has never been unlocked.
It is the exact image of the master volume
it was copied from, at the time of its
creation. See also snapshot.
interactive mode
A means of entering XCLI commands on
the XCLI client in which the IP address,
user, and password information does not
need to be specified for each command.
Internet Protocol
Specifies the format of packets (also called
datagrams), and their addressing schemes.
See also Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP).
IOPs
Input/output (I/O) per second.
IP
See Internet Protocol.
iSCSI Internet SCSI. An IP-based standard for
linking data storage devices over a
network and transferring data by carrying
SCSI commands over IP networks.
L
latency
Amount of time delay between the
moment an operation is issued, and the
moment it is committed.
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
LDAP attribute
A property of an LDAP object, with a
single or multiple values. A special object
attribute is designated by an LDAP
administrator to hold user group
memberships values corresponding to
XIV roles.
LDAP authentication
A method for authenticating users by
validating the user's submitted credentials
against data stored on an LDAP directory.
LDAP directory
A hierarchical database stored on an
LDAP server and accessed through LDAP
calls.
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