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ISR651101-00 G Glossary-3
iSR6200 Intelligent Storage Router
Installation Guide
F_Port
The fabric port in a Fibre Channel fabric
switch provides a point-to-point link attach-
ment to a single N_Port. F_Ports are inter-
mediate ports in virtual point-to-point links
between end ports, for example N_Port to
F_Port to F_Port to N_Port using a single
Fibre Channel fabric switch.
fabric
A fabric consists of cross-connected Fibre
Channel devices and switches.
fabric port
See F_Port.
fabric switch
Also, switched fabric. A fabric switch
connects multiple devices from indepen-
dent Fibre Channel-arbitrated loops
(FC-ALs) and point-to-point topologies into
a fabric using Fibre Channel switches.
failover path
Software feature that ensures data avail-
ability and system reliability by assigning
alternate path and automatic adapter
failover for device resources. This feature
is available only in Windows
2000/Windows Server 2003/Windows
Vista, Novell NetWare, and Red Hat/SUSE
Linux. (Windows XP and Windows Server
2008 do not support failover.)
FC
See Fibre Channel.
FC-IP mode
Data transportation mode in which the
iSR6200 transports Fibre Channel frames
over a TCP/IP connection using the FCIP
protocol to connect two iSR6200 routers.
In FC-IP mode, a port pair (one Fibre
Channel port and an IP port on the same
router) on local iSR6200 and another port
pair on a remote router form an FCIP
route.
FCIP
Fibre Channel over IP. Protocol that
enables transmission of Fibre Channel
information by tunneling data on a SAN
over IP networks. An alternative to iSCSI.
Also known as Fibre Channel tunneling.
FCoE
Fibre Channel over Ethernet. A new
technology defined by the T11 standards
body that allows traditional Fibre Channel
storage networking traffic to travel over an
Ethernet link by encapsulating Fibre
Channel frames inside Layer 2 Ethernet
frames. For more information, visit
www.fcoe.com
.
Fibre Channel
A high-speed serial interface technology
that supports other higher layer protocols
such as SCSI and IP.
field replaceable unit
See FRU.