FCoE Cookbook for HP Virtual Connect Version 4.20 Firmware Enhancements May 2014

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Acronyms and abbreviations
Term
Definition
BIOS
Basic Input/Output System
CLI
Command Line Interface
CNA
Converged Network Adapter
DCB
Data Center Bridging (new enhanced lossless Ethernet fabric)
GUI
Graphical User Interface
FC
Fibre Channel
FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Flex-10 NIC Port*
A physical 10Gb port that is capable of being partitioned into 4 Flex NICs
FlexHBA**
Flexible Host Bus Adapter. Physical function 2 or a FlexFabric CNA can act as
either an Ethernet NIC, FCoE connection or iSCSI NIC with boot and iSCSI offload
capabilities.
HBA
Host Bus Adapter
I/O
Input / Output
IOS
Cisco OS (originally Internetwork Operating System)
IP
Internet Protocol
iSCSI
Internet Small Computer System Interface
LACP
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (see IEEE802.3ad)
LOM
LAN-on-Motherboard. Embedded network adapter on the system board
LR
Long Range
LUN
Logical Unit Number
MPIO
Multipath I/O
MZ1 or MEZZ1; LOM
Mezzanine Slot 1; (LOM) LAN Motherboard/Systemboard NIC
NPIV
N_Port ID Virtualization
NXOS
Cisco OS for Nexus series
OS
Operating System
POST
Power-On Self-Test
RCFC
Remote Copy over Fibre Channel
RCIP
Remote Copy over IP
ROM
Read-only memory
SAN
Storage Area Network
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
SFP
Small form-factor pluggable transceiver
SPOCK
Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge
SPS
Storage Protocol Services
SR
Short Range
SSH
Secure Shell
VC
Virtual Connect
VC-FC
Virtual Connect Fibre Channel module
VCM
Virtual Connect Manager
VLAN
Virtual Local-area network