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Departmental Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Procedures Manual
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Glossary
EE_Credit End to end Credit; the number of receive buffers allocated by a
recipient port to an originating port. Used by Class 1 and 2 services to
manage the exchange of frames across the fabric between source and
destination. See also End- to-end Flow Control and BB_Credit.
EIA Rack A storage rack that meets the standards set by the Electronics
Industry Association.
Enabled Zone
Configuration
The currently enabled configuration of zones. Only one configuration
can be enabled at a time. See also Defined Configuration and Zone
Configuration.
End-to-End Flow
Control
Governs flow of class 1 and 2 frames between N_Ports. See also
EE_Credit.
Error As applies to Fibre Channel, a missing or corrupted frame, time out,
loss of synchronization, or loss of signal (link errors). See also Loop
Failure.
Exchange The highest level Fibre Channel mechanism used for communication
between N_Ports. Composed of one or more related sequences, and
can work in either one or both directions.
Extended Fabrics A product that runs on Fabric OS and allows creation of a Fibre
Channel fabric interconnected over distances of up to 100 kilometers.
F
F_Port Fabric Port; a port that is able to transmit under fabric protocol and
interface over links. Can be used to connect an N_Port to a switch. See
also FL_Port and Fx_Port.
Fabric A Fibre Channel network containing two or more switches in
addition to hosts and devices. May also be referred to as a switched
fabric. See also Topology, SAN and Cascade.
Fabric Name The unique identifier assigned to a fabric and communicated during
login and port discovery.
Fabric OS The proprietary operating system on switches.
FC-AL-3 The Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop standard defined by ANSI.
Defined on top of the FC-PH standards.