Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1166)

OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Version 10.2 User Manual P010089-01A Rev. A
1. Introduction
Abbreviations
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RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RPI remote port indicator
Rx receive
SAN storage area network
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SF standard function
SFCB Small Footprint CIM Broker
SFP small form factor pluggable
SIMode IBM term for UMC (switch independent mode). Previously known as
vNIC2.
SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLI scalable link interface
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNR signal to noise ratio
SR-IOV single root I/O virtualization
SNR Signal-to-Noise
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDR time-domain reflectometer
Tx transmit
UCNA Universal Converged Network Adapter
UFP IBM’s Universal Fabric Port.
ULP Upper Layer Protocol
UMC Universal Multichannel
UTF-8 U (Universal Character Set) Transformation Format –8 bit
vCSA VMware for vCenter Server Appliance
VEPA Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator
VF virtual function
VPD vital product data
VLAN virtual local area network
VLANID virtual local area network id
VM virtual machine
vNIC virtual NIC (also known as virtual fabric mode)
vNIC2 previous name for SIMode
VPort virtual port
WWN world wide name
WWNN world wide node name
WWPN world wide port name