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FC0054607-00 A Glossary-7
Fibre Channel and Converged Network Adapters for VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0
User’s Guide
target
The storage-device endpoint of a SCSI
session. Initiators request data from
targets (usually disk-drives, tape-drives, or
other media devices). Typically, a SCSI
peripheral device is the target but an
adapter may, in some cases, be a target. A
target can contain many LUNs.
A target is a device that responds to a
request by an initiator (the host system).
Peripherals are targets, but for some
commands (for example, a SCSI COPY
command), the peripheral may act as an
initiator.
TCP/IP
Transmission control protocol/Internet
protocol. Basic communication language
of the Internet.
world wide port name
See WWPN.
WWPN
World wide port name. Unique 64-bit
address assigned to each port on a
device. One WWNN may contain multiple
WWPN addresses.