Glossary
This glossary defines acronyms and terms used in this guide and is not a comprehensive glossary of
computer terms.
3DC Three Data Center. A storage configuration that uses XP storage systems.
AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. A security protocol.
access
authorization
A fabric security method that provides frame-level access control in hardware
and verifies the SID-DID combination of each frame. Also known as hard zoning.
ACL Access control list. A data protection feature used to restrict access to data
resources based on defined policies.
ACU Array Configuration Utility. A utility used to control LUN access.
ADG Advanced Data Guarding.
AES Advanced Encryption Standard. An encryption security technology.
AG Access Gateway. A software-enable feature that allows B-series Blade switches
to function as port aggregators.
arbitrated loop See FC-AL.
ARL Adaptive Rate Limiting.
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode. A communications networking technology for
LANs and WANs that carries information in fixed-size cells of 53 bytes (5 protocol
bytes and 48 data bytes).
BB_credits Buffer-to-buffer credits.
BCN Backward Congestion Notification.
B-series Fibre Channel switches manufactured for HP by Brocade Communications
Systems, Inc.
CA Certificate authority.
cascaded switch The destination director attached to the control unit.
CBC Cipher-block chaining. A data encryption cipher mode.
CEE Converged Enhanced Ethernet.
CFS Cisco Fabric Services. A C-series port security feature.
CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol. An IP SAN security technology.
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