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SANsurfer FC HBA Manager User’s Guide
Management Tool for QLogic FC and FCoE Adapters
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SCSI
Small Computer System Interface. A
hardware bus specification and a
packet-oriented protocol specification for
communicating on that bus. SCSI over FC
uses the packet-oriented protocol to
communicate with storage devices on the
FC.
SPIFFI
Specification for Platform-Independent
Failover and Failback Integration. A
cooperative effort that defines a non
vendor-specific failover mechanism.
SYSFS
A virtual file system provided by the 2.6
Linux kernel. Sysfs exports information
about devices and drivers from the kernel
device model to userspace, and is also
used for configuration.
T11
A subcommittee of the International
Committee for Information Technology
Standards (INCITS) that establishes the
standards for Fibre Channel technology.
Target
Devices, such an HBA card, which
mediate data in a computer network. The
term device is used interchangeably with
target and target device. See Device.
Target binding
The process in which the HBA driver binds
a target ID using a target's world wide port
name (WWPN) or port ID. This enables
the target ID to always connect to the
WWPN or port ID across reboots regard-
less of SAN configurations.
WWPN
World Wide Port Name. A unique name
assigned to a each port on a device. One
WWNN (world wide node name) may
contain multiple WWPN addresses.