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SCSI Personality
A storage device profile that you assign to
a user-defined host in the SVM GUI. For
more information, see "To create a user
defined host (UDH) and set the SCSI
personality:" on page 5-9.
Secondary Path
For an active/passive device, the set of
paths that are passive by default. See also
Active/Passive RAID, Passive Path, and
Primary Path.
SFP
Small Form-Factor Pluggable, the
removable transceiver form factor used by
SANbox SSP.
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol,
the protocol used by SANbox SSP to
report exception conditions to third-party
network management applications.
SSH
Secure Shell, a protocol and application
for communicating with a remote computer
system. SSH is a more secure alternative
to using telnet to communicate with
SANbox SSP.
SSP
Storage Services Platform. A SAN-based
system, separate from the core Fibre
Channel switching infrastructure, that
provides storage services across
heterogeneous hosts, storage, and SAN
fabrics.
Storage Pool
The StoreAge-specific term used to
describe a collection of physical disks
managed by the SVM appliance.
SVM
Storage Virtualization Manager.
StoreAge's software for managing pools of
virtualized SAN storage.
System Software Image
Updateable software component that
contains the operating environment for
SANbox SSP, including the StoreAge SVM
Agent for SANbox SSP.
Target
See Target Device.
Target Device
A device that contains one or more target
ports.
Target Port
A Fibre Channel port capable of
presenting storage in the form of one or
more SCSI LUNs.
Transceiver
A device that provides an interface
between the SANbox SSP hardware and
the external network cable. SANbox SSP
uses optical SFP (Small Form-Factor
Pluggable) transceivers.
Valid Boot Set
A boot set that contains a usable system
image.