Acronyms and Abbreviations Acronyms-1
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM Configuration Guide for SGI
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IRIX
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Host Attachment
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACE
Advanced Cluster Environment
AL arbitrated loop
AL-PA arbitrated loop physical address
CTQ command tag queuing
CVS custom volume size
CXFS™ clustered version of XFS
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file system
EFS™ IRIX standard file system
ESCON
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Enterprise System Connection (IBM trademark for optical
channels)
ExSA™ Extended Serial Adapter™
FC fibre-channel
FCA fibre-channel adapter
FC-AL fibre-channel arbitrated loop
FCP fibre-channel protocol
FX Hitachi Cross-OS File Exchange
fx IRIX disk utility
GB gigabyte
Gbps gigabits per second
I/O, IO input/output
kB kilobytes
LDEV logical device
LU logical unit
LUN logical unit number, logical unit
LUSE LUN Expansion
LVI Logical Volume Image
LVM Logical Volume Manager, logical volume management
MB megabytes
OFC open fibre control
PA
physical address
PC personal computer system
P-P point-to-point