HP Surestore 64 Director Switch - Manual (Page 228)

212 Glossary
expansion port
Physical interface on a Fibre Channel switch within a fabric, that attaches to an
expansion (E_Port) on another Fibre Channel switch to form a multiswitch fabric. See
also segmented E_Port.
explicit fabric login
Data field size, supported by an F-Port, that is agreed upon during fabric login.
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 element
Any active director or node in a switched fabric.
Fabric Manager application
Application that implements the management user interface for Fibre Channel switched
fabrics. The application runs both locally on the HP EFC Server and remotely on user
workstations.
fabric port
Physical interface within the fabric that connects to an N_Port through a point-to-point
full duplex connection.
failover
Automatic and nondisruptive transition of functions from an active FRU that has failed
to a backup FRU.
FCC-IOC