HP Surestore 64 Director Switch - Manual (Page 128)

116 Glossary
event log
Record of significant events that have occurred on the director, such as FRU failures,
degraded operation, and port problems.
expansion port
The physical interface on a Fibre Channel switch within a fabric, that attaches to an
expansion port (E_Port) on another Fibre Channel switch to form a multiswitch fabric.
See also segmented E_Port.
F
fabric
Entity that interconnects N_Ports and is capable of routing (switching) Fibre Channel
frames using the destination ID information in the Fibre Channel frame header
accompanying the frames.
fabric port
Physical interface within the fabric that connects to an N_Port through a point-to-point
full duplex connection.
failover
The automatic and nondisruptive transition of functions from an active FRU that has
failed to a backup FRU.
FCP
A standard Fibre Channel protocol used to run SCSI over Fibre Channel.
fiber
Physical media types supported by the Fibre Channel specification, such as optical
fiber, twisted pair, and coaxial cable.