16N Installation Guide, V4.2.X (AA-RVULB-TE, April 2004)

Glossary

105SAN Switch 2/8V, 2/16V and 2/16N Installation Guide

FSP

Fibre channel service protocol. The common protocol for all fabric services,

transparent to the fabric type or topology.

FSPF

Fabric shortest path first. HP’s routing protocol for fibre channel switches.

Fx_Port

A fabric port that can operate as either an F_Port or FL_Port.

G_Port

Generic port. A port that can operate as either an E_Port or F_Port. A port is

defined as a G_Port when it is not yet connected or has not yet assumed a specific

function in the fabric.

hard address

The AL_PA that an NL_Port attempts to acquire during loop initialization.

idle

Continuous transmission of an ordered set over a fibre channel link when no data

is being transmitted, to keep the link active and maintain bit, byte, and word

synchronization.

integrated fabric

The fabric created by connecting multiple HP switches with multiple ISL cables,

and configuring the switches to handle traffic as a seamless group.

ISL trunking

The distribution of traffic over the combined bandwidth of multiple ISLs. A set of

trunked ISLs is called a “trunking group”, and the ports in a trunking group are

called “trunking ports”.

isolated E_Port

An E_Port that is online but not operational due to overlapping domain IDs or

nonidentical parameters (such as E_D_TOVs).