SN0054669-00 C Glossary-1
Glossary
adapter
The board that interfaces between the
host system and the target devices.
Adapter is synonymous with host bus
adapter (HBA), host adapter, and adapter
board.
adapter port
A port on the adapter board.
CLI
Command line interface. A program inter-
face driven by entering commands and
parameters.
Converged Network Adapter
QLogic Converged Network Adapters.
support both data networking (TCP/IP)
and storage networking (Fibre Channel)
traffic on a single I/O adapter using two
new technologies: Enhanced Ethernet and
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
command line interface
See CLI.
device
A target, typically a disk drive. Hardware
such as a disk drive, tape drive, printer, or
keyboard that is installed in or connected
to a system. In Fibre Channel, a target
device.
driver
The software that interfaces between the
file system and a physical data storage
device or network media.
Enhanced Ethernet
Also called data center Ethernet or
converged enhanced Ethernet. Refers to
new enhancements to the existing
Ethernet standard that eliminate Ethernet’s
inherently lossy nature and make 10Gb
Ethernet a viable storage networking
transport.
Ethernet
The most widely used LAN technology that
transmits information between computer,
typically at speeds of 10 and 100 million
bits per second (Mbps).
FC
See Fibre Channel.
FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet. A new
technology defined by the T11 standards
body that allows traditional Fibre Channel
storage networking traffic to travel over an
Ethernet link by encapsulating Fibre
Channel frames inside Layer 2 Ethernet
frames. For more information, visit
www.fcoe.com
.
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