Glossary
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Chassis A sheet metal enclosure incorporating a Backplane PCB and module
runner system. The chassis contains a number of 'Bays', each of which
can accommodate a plug in module. There are sixteen drive carrier bays
at the front and five bays at the rear which house power supply/cooling
and LRC I/O modules and also the Ops Panel.
Configure To set up a hardware device and its accompanying software.
Controller “A” In a redundant controller environment, one controller is designated as
controller “A” and the other controller is designated as the controller
“B”. Controller identity is determined by enclosure hardware. The
controller’s identity displays continuously at the bottom of the Disk
Array Administrator screens. See Storage Manager.
Data Commu-
nications
A type of communications in which computers and terminals are able
to exchange data over an electronic medium.
Disk (drive,
carrier,
module)
An FC-AL disk drive mounted in a carrier. You can have up to sixteen
disk drive carrier modules in each EF2800 enclosure.
Enclosure The chassis assembly which houses the plug-in modules that make up
the EF2800 storage Subsystem.
ESI/Ops mod-
ule
A unit used to monitor and control all elements of the Enclosure. The
ESI/Operators (Ops) panel is supplied as an integral part of the
EF2800 enclosure core product
Fabric Fabric refers to a switched topology, which is one of the three FC
topologies. Fabric elements, which are responsible for frame routing,
interconnect various N_Ports or NL_Ports. Connections to fabric can
use loop (public loop) or point to point.
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