Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1513)

Boot Version 10.2 for NIC, iSCSI, FCoE, and RoCE Protocols User Manual P010097-01B Rev. A
1. Introduction
Abbreviations
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FTP File Transfer Protocol
FUI FoD Unique Identifier
Gb/s gigabits per second
GPT GUID partition table
GUI graphic user interface
GUID Globally Unique Identifier
HBA host bus adapter
HII Human Interface Infrastructure
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
iBFT iSCSI boot firmware table
INTx PCIe legacy interrupts, where “x” is variable
I/O input/output
IOCTL input/output control
IP internet protocol
IQN iSCSI qualified name
iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface
JBOD just a bunch of disks
KB 1024 bytes (Kilobyte or Kibibyte)
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LED light-emitting diode
LOM LAN on motherboard
LPVID logical port VLAN ID
LUN logical unit number
MAC media access control
MBR master boot record
MPIO multipath I/O
MSI message signaled interrupts
MSI-X message signaled interrupts - extended
MTU maximum transmission unit
NBP network bootstrap program
NIC network interface card (or controller)
NIS/NIS+ Network Information Service/Network Information Service Plus
NIV Network Interface Virtualization
NLB network loopback
NPAR NIC partitioning