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Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

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Emulex Drivers Version 10.2 for VMware ESXi User Manual

P010087-01A Rev. A

1. Introduction

Abbreviations

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FDMI

Fabric-Device Management Interface

FIP

FCoE Initialization Protocol

GB

gigabyte

Gb

gigabit

Gb/s

gigabits per second

GUI

graphic user interface

HBA

host bus adapter

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IHV

independent hardware vendor

INTx

PCIe legacy interrupts, where “x” is variable

I/O

input/output

IOCTL

input/output control

IOPS

I/O operations per second

IP

internet protocol

IQN

iSCSI qualified name

iSCSI

Internet Small Computer System Interface

KB

1024 bytes (Kilobyte or Kibibyte)

LACP

Link Aggregation Control Protocol

LDTO

link down timeout

LPFC

LightPulse Fibre Channel

LUN

logical unit number

MAC

media access control

MB

megabyte

Mb

megabit

Mb/s

megabits per second

MPIO

multipath I/O

MQ

MultiQueue

MSI

message signaled interrupts

MSI-X

message signaled interrupts - extended

MTU

maximum transmission unit

NIC

network interface card (or controller)

NPar

NIC partitioning

NPIV

N_Port ID virtualization

OCM

OneCommand™ Manager application

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCIe

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

PF

physical function