HP P6000 HP P6300/P6500 Enterprise Virtual Array User Guide (593079-001, June - Page 285

fiber fiber optic cable fiber optics fibre Fibre Channel Fibre Channel adapter Fibre Channel drive enclosure Fibre Channel Loop field replaceable unit flush FMC form factor FPGA frequency FRU The optical media used to implement Fibre Channel. A transmission medium designed to transmit digital signals in the form of pulses of light. Fiber optic cable is noted for its properties of electrical isolation and resistance to electrostatic contamination. The technology where light is transmitted through glass or plastic (optical) threads (fibers) for data communication or signaling purposes. The international spelling that refers to the Fibre Channel standards for optical media. A data transfer architecture designed for mass storage devices and other peripheral devices that require high bandwidth. See FCA. An enclosure that provides twelve-port central interconnect for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops following the ANSI Fibre Channel disk enclosure standard. Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop. The American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) document that specifies arbitrated loop topology operation. See FRU. The act of writing dirty data from cache to a storage media. Fault Management Code. The HP P6000 Command View display of the Enterprise Storage System error condition information. A storage industry dimensional standard for 3.5inch (89 mm) and 5.25inch (133 mm) high storage devices. Device heights are specified as low-profile (1inch or 25.4 mm), half-height (1.6inch or 41 mm), and full-height (5.25inch or 133 mm). Field Programmable Gate Array. A programmable device with an internal array of logic blocks surrounded by a ring of programmable I/O blocks connected together through a programmable interconnect. The number of cycles that occur in one second expressed in Hertz (Hz). Thus, 1 Hz is equivalent to one cycle per second. Field Replaceable Unit. An assembly component that is designed to be replaced on site, without the system having to be returned to the manufacturer for repair. G general purpose server Giga (G) gigabaud gray-color A server that runs customer applications, such as file and print services. The notation to represent 109 or 1 billion (1,000,000,000). An encoded bit transmission rate of one billion (109) bits per second. The convention of applying an alloy or gray color to a CRU tab, lever, or handle to identify the unit as warm-swappable. H HBA host Host bus adapter host computer host link indicator host port Host Bus Adapter. See also FCA. A computer that runs user applications and uses (or can potentially use) one or more virtual disks created and presented by the controller pair. See FCA. See host. The HSV Controller display that indicates the status of the storage system Fibre Channel links. A connection point to one or more hosts through a Fibre Channel fabric. A host is a computer that runs user applications and that uses (or can potentially use) one or more of the virtual disks that are created and presented by the controller pair. 285