Acronyms and Abbreviations
B |
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BIOS |
Basic Input/Output System |
C |
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CNA |
Converged Network Adapter |
CNC |
Converged Network Controller |
CoS |
Class of Service |
CLI |
Command Line Interface |
D |
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DCB |
Data Center Bridging |
DCBX |
Data Center Bridging eXchange |
DID |
Destination IDentification |
E |
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EST |
External Switch Tagging |
ETS |
Enhanced Transmission Selection |
F |
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FC |
Fibre Channel |
FCF |
FCoE Forwarder |
FCoE |
Fibre Channel over Ethernet |
I |
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iSCSI |
internet Small Computer System Interface |
L |
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LACP |
Link Aggregation Control Protocol |
LUN |
Logical Unit Number |
N |
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NIC |
Network Interface Card |
NPAR |
Network Interface Card Partitioning |
NPIV |
N_Port_ID Virtualization |
O |
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OS |
Operating System |
OSCA |
Open Service Converged Architecture |
P |
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PCI-SIG |
Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group |
PCIE |
PCI Express |
PF |
Physical Function |
PFC |
Priority Flow Control |
PG |
Priority Group |
PVID |
Port Default Vlan ID |
PXE |
Preboot Execution Environment |
PC |
Personal Computer |
S |
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SAN |
Storage Area Network |
SID |
Source IDentification |
SR-IOV |
Single Root I/O Virtualization |
T |
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TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
V |
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VEB |
Virtual Ethernet Bridge |
VF |
Virtual Function |
VGT |
Virtual Machine Guest Tagging |
VLAN |
Virtual Local Area Network |
VM |
Virtual Machine |
VMQ |
Virtual Machine Queue |
VST |
Virtual Switch Tagging |
W |
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WWN |
World Wide Name |
WWNN |
World Wide Node Name |
WWPN |
World Wide Port Name |