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InterSan
®
Pathline
®
InterSAN Inc.’s Storage Area Management (SAM) software product PATHLINE is the
first application-based SAM software that aligns the management of storage networks
with business policies and objectives. PATHLINE helps customers efficiently manage
large, multiprotocol, multivendor storage area networks (SANs) by taking an
applications-oriented view that masks the complexity of the underlying storage-
networking infrastructure.
IP
The IP (Internet Protocol) is the underlying protocol for routing packets on the
Internet and other TCP/IP-based networks. IP is an internetwork protocol that
provides a communication standard that works across different types of linked
networks, for example Ethernet, FDDI, or ATM.
Java
™
Developed by Sun Microsystems
™
, Java is now a standard software language for
developing plug-in applications.
LAN
Local area networks or LANs are networks of computers that are geographically close
together; this usually means on the same campus. Most LANs are confined to a single
building or group of buildings. However, one LAN can be connected to other LANs
over any distance via telephone lines, high-speed fiber optic backbones, and radio
waves. A system of LANs connected in this way is called a wide-area network (WAN).
Lightning 9900
™
V Series
The Hitachi Freedom Storage
™
Lightning 9900
™
V Series was announced in May 2002
(Lightning 9980V
™
and Lightning 9970V
™
models). It represents a major advance in
enterprise-class storage systems with its Hierarchical Star Network switched internal
architecture, which provides for many times more simultaneous transfers to and from
the host compared to shared-bus architectures.
Logical Fibre Channel Port
The Lightning 9900 V Series Fibre Channel adapter cards each contain four physical
Fibre Channel ports. Each physical port can be subdivided into multiple logical Fibre
Channel ports. Each logical Fibre Channel port supports a Host Storage Domain
(HSD), which is a collection of LUNs matched to assigned hosts based on WWNs.
Logical Unit
The SCSI term for a logical disk drive.
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