Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual
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OneCommand™ Manager Application
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1. Introduction
Abbreviations
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MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
NIC
network interface card (or controller)
NOS
network operating system
NPar
NIC partitioning
NVP
normal velocity of propagation
PAM
pluggable authentication modules
PF
physical function
PFC
priority-based flow control
PGID
priority group ID
PGBW
priority group bandwidth
PHY
physical layer
POST
power-on self-test
PDU
protocol data unit
PXE
Pre-boot Execution Environment
RDMA
Remote Direct Memory Access
RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RM
remote management
RMAPI
remote management application programming interface
RoCE
RDMA over Converged Ethernet
RPM
resource package manager
SAN
storage area network
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
SFCB
Small Footprint CIM Broker
SFP
small form factor pluggable
SIMode
IBM term for UMC. Previously known as vNIC2.
SLES
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SR-IOV
single root I/O virtualization
SSH
Secure Shell
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TDR
time-domain reflectometer
TSIH
target session identifier handle
UCNA
universal converged network adapter
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UFP
IBM's Universal Fabric Port
ULP
Upper Layer Protocol
UMC
Universal Multi-channel
VEPA
Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator