10GE 10-Gbps Ethernet
10GFC 10-Gbps Fibre Channel
10GigE 10-Gbps Ethernet
3PC Third Party Copy
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
ABR Area Border Router
ABTS Abort Sequence
ACA Auto Contingent Allegiance
ACK Acknowledge
ACL Access Control List
ADISC Discover Address
AH Authentication Header
AHS Additional Header Segment
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Programming Interface
AQM Active Queue Management
ARC Accept Response Code
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
AS Autonomous System
ASBR Autonomous System Border Router
ASF Authenticate Special Frame
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B_Port Bridge Port
BA_ACC Basic Accept
BA_RJT Basic Reject
BB_SC Buffer-to-Buffer_State_Change
BBC Buffer-to-Buffer_Credit
BCP Best Current Practice
BER Bit Error Ratio
BER Bit Error Rate
BF Build Fabric
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BGP-4 Border Gateway Protocol version 4
BHS Basic Header Segment
BLS Basic Link Service
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
CAE Common Application Environment
CAM Common Access Method
CCW Channel Command Word
CDB Command Descriptor Block
CES Circuit Emulation Service
CFI Canonical Format Indicator
Ch Changed
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CID Connection Identifier
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIFS Common Internet File System
CIM Common Information Model
CLI Command Line Interface
CLNP Connectionless Network Protocol
CmdSN Command Sequence Number
COS Class of Service
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRCV Cyclic Redundancy Check Valid
CRN Command Reference Number
CS_CTL Class Specific Control
CS1 Cyber Security
CSM Control and Service Module
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSS Channel Sub-System
CTL Control
CU Control Unit
CUP Control Unit Port
CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
CWND Congestion Window
CWR Congestion Window Reduced
D_ID Destination ID
DA Datamover Architecture for iSCSI
DA Directory Agent
DA Destination Address
DAFS Direct Access File System
DARN Data Acknowledgement Reference Number
DAS Direct Attached Storage
DAT Direct Access Transport
DataSN Data Sequence Number
DC Direct Current
DCI Direct-Coupled Interlock
DD Discovery Domain
DDS Discovery Domain Set
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DF Don't Fragment
DF_CTL Data Field Control
DH-CHAP Diffie-Hellmann Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIA Domain_ID Assigned
DiffServ Differentiated Services
DMP Dynamic Multi-Pathing
DMTF Distributed Management Task Force
DNS Domain Name System
DOI Domain of Interpretation
DPT Dynamic Packet Transport
DS Data Streaming
DS Digital Signal Services
DS-0 Digital Signal 0
DSAP Destination Service Access Point
DSCP Differentiated Services Codepoint
DT Double Transition
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
E_D_TOV Error Detect Time-Out Value
E_Port Expansion Port
EBP Exchange B_Access Parameters
EBSI Enhanced Backup Solutions Initiative
ECE ECN Echo
ECN Explicit Congestion Notification
EDFA Erbium-doped fiber amplifier
EEC End-to-End_Credit
EFP Exchange Fabric Parameters
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EIP Establish Image Pair
ELP Exchange Link Parameters
ELS Extended Link Service
EMDP Enable Modify Data Pointers
EMI Electro-Magnetic Interference
EN Enterprise Number
EOF End-of-Frame
EOR Electro-Optical Repeater
EPD End_of_Packet Delimiter
EPDC Enable Precise Delivery Checking
ESB Exchange Status Block
ESC Exchange Switch Capabilities
ESCON Enterprise Systems Connection
ESI Entity Status Inquiry
ESP Encapsulating Security Payload
EUI Extended Unique Identifier
ExpCmdSN Expected Command Sequence Number
F_CTL Frame Control
F_Port Fabric Port
F_S_TOV Fabric Stability Time-Out Value
FARP FC Address Resolution Protocol
FCAL Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
FCAP Fibre Channel Authentication Protocol
FCC FC Congestion Control
FC-FE Fibre Channel Frame Encapsulation
FCIP Fibre Channel over TCP/IP
FCIP_DE Fibre Channel over TCP/IP Data Engine
FCIP_LEP Fibre Channel over TCP/IP Link End Point
FCNS Fibre Channel Name Server
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI
FCP_CMND Fibre Channel Protocol Command
FCP_CONF Fibre Channel Protocol Confirmation
FCP_DATA Fibre Channel Protocol Data
FCP_RJT Fibre Channel Protocol Reject
FCP_RSP Fibre Channel Protocol Response
FCP_XFER_RDY Fibre Channel Protocol Transfer Ready
FCPAP Fibre Channel Password Authentication Protocol
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FCTA Fibre Channel Tape Acceleration
FCWA Fibre Channel Write Acceleration
FCZS Fibre Channel Zone Server
FD Full Duplex
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDISC Discover F_Port Service Parameters
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDMI Fabric Device Management Interface
FE Fast Ethernet
FICON Fibre Channel Connection
FIFO First in First Out
FIM Fixed Interval Marker
FIN Final
FL Fabric Loop
FL_Port Fabric Loop Port
FLOGI Fabric Login
FLP Fast Link Pulse
FPSM FC_Port State Machine
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FQXID Fully Qualified Exchange Identifier
FSF FCIP Special Frame
FSPF Fabric Shortest Path First
FT_0 Frame Type Zero
FT_1 Frame Type One
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTT FCIP Transit Time
GARP Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter
Gbps Gigabits per second
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GFP-T Transparent Generic Framing Procedure
GHz Gigahertz
GigE Gigabit Ethernet
GLBP Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
GSS-API Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface
GVRP GARP VLAN Registration Protocol
HBA Host Bus Adapter
HCA Host Channel Adapter
HD Half Duplex
HDLC High-Level Data Link Control
HIPPI High-Performance Parallel Interface
HPC High Performance Computing
HSM Hierarchical Storage Management
HSRP Hot Standby Router Protocol
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
HVD High Voltage Differential
I/G Individual/Group
I/O Input/Output
I_T Nexus Initiator-Target Nexus
I_T_L Nexus Initiator-Target-Logical Unit Nexus
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IAS Internet Attached Storage
IB InfiniBand
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICV Integrity Check Value
IDC Internet Data Center
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
iFCP Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
IGP Interior Gateway Protocol
IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
IHL Internet Header Length
IKE Internet Key Exchange
ILM Information Lifecycle Management
IMP Interface Message Processor
INCITS InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
IntServ Integrated Services
IO Input/Output
IOA In-fiber Optical Amplifier
IOPS I/O Operations Per Second
IP Internet Protocol
IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol
IPFC Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel
IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface
IPS Internet Protocol Storage
IPsec Internet Protocol Security
IPS-WG Internet Protocol Storage Working Group
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
IQN iSCSI Qualified Name
ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface
iSER iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
ISID Initiator Session Identifier
IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System
ISL Inter-Switch Link
ISMF Internet Standard Management Framework
ISN Initial Sequence Number
iSNS Internet Storage Name Service
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISV Independent Software Vendor
ITT Initiator Task Tag
ITU International Telecommunication Union
iuCRC information unit Cyclic Redundancy Check
IVR Inter-VSAN Routing
JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks
K_A_TOV Keep Alive Time-Out Value
Kbps Kilobits per second
KBps Kilobytes per second
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
LBA Logical Block Addressing
LCP Link Control Protocol
LCW Link Code Word
LFN Long Fat Network
LIFO Last in First Out
LIP Loop Initialization Primitive
LIR Local Internet Registry
LKA Link Keep Alive
LLC Logical Link Control
LOGO Logout
LPSM Loop Port State Machine
LR Link Reset
LRR Link Reset Response
LS_ACC Link Services Accept
LS_RJT Link Service Reject
LSA Link State Advertisement
LUN Logical Unit Number
LVD Low Voltage Differential
LVM Logical Volume Manager
MAC Media Access Control
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAU Multi-Access Unit
MaxCmdSN Maximum Command Sequence Number
Mbps Megabits per second
MBps Megabytes per second
MCP Mode-Conditioning Patch
MF More Fragments
MIB Management Information Base
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMF Multi-Mode Fiber
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
MSA Multi-Source Agreement
MSE Multimode Single-Ended
MSL Maximum Segment Lifetime
MSS Maximum Segment Size
MSTP Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTTF Mean Time to Failure
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
N_Port Node Port
NAA Network Address Authority
NACK Negative Acknowledgement
NAM Network Analysis Module
NAS Network Attached Storage
NAS Network Access Server
NAT Network Address Translation
NBNS NetBIOS Name Service
NCP Network Control Protocol
NDMP Network Data Management Protocol
NetBIOS Network Basic Input Output System
NFS Network File System
NIC Network Interface Card
NIR National Internet Registry
NL Node Loop
NL_Port Node Loop Port
NMS Network Management Station
No-OP No-Operation
NOP-In No Operation In
NOP-Out No Operation Out
NOS Network Operating System
NOS Not Operational State
NPIV N_Port_ID Virtualization
NTP Network Time Protocol
NWWN Node Worldwide Name
OC Optical Carrier
OLS Offline State
OPAV Originator Process_Associator Valid
Opcode Operation Code
ORB Operation Request Block
OS-Code Ordered Set Code
OSI Open Systems Interconnect
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier
OX_ID Originator Exchange ID
P2P Point-to-Point
PAA Port Analyzer Adapter
PAgP Port Aggregation Protocol
PATA Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
PAWS Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers
PC Personal Computer
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
pCRC parallel Cyclic Redundancy Check
PCS Physical Coding Sublayer
PDISC Discover N_Port Parameters
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PHB Per Hop Behavior
PID Protocol Identifier
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PLOGI N_Port Login
PMM Platform Management Module
PMTU Path Maximum Transmission Unit
POS PPP over SONET
POST Power on Self Test
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PRLI Process Login
PRLO Process Logout
PS Principal Switch
PS1 Pause 1
PS2 Pause 2
PSH Push
PSS Principal Switch Selection
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PTP Point-To-Point
PVID Port VLAN Identifier
PWWN Port Worldwide Name
QAS Quick Arbitration and Selection
QoS Quality of Service
R&D Research and Development
R_A_TOV Resource Allocation Time-Out Value
R_CTL Routing Control
R_RDY Receiver_Ready
R_T_TOV Receiver Transmitter Time-Out Value
R2T Ready to Transfer
R2TSN Ready to Transfer Sequence Number
RAC Registration Authority Committee
RACL Router Access Control List
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RBAC Role Based Access Control
RCMD Remote Command
RCP Remote Copy
RCS Read Connection Status
RDI Request Domain_ID
RDMA Remote Direct Memory Access
REC Read Exchange Concise
RED Random Early Detection
RES Read Exchange Status Block
RF1 Remote Fault 1
RF2 Remote Fault 2
RFC Request For Comment
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RIPv2 Routing Information Protocol version 2
RIR Regional Internet Registry
RLIR Registered Link Incident Report
RLOGIN Remote Login
RLS Read Link Error Status Block
RMON Remote Network Monitor
RPAV Responder Process_Associator Valid
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPR Resilient Packet Ring
RPS Read Port Status Block
RR_TOVSEQ_INIT Sequence Initiative Resource Recovery Time-Out Value
RRQ Reinstate Recovery Qualifier
RSCN Registered State Change Notification
RSH Remote Shell
RSPAN Remote Switch Port Analyzer
RSS Read Sequence Status Block
RST Reset
RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol
RTO Retransmission Time-Out
RTT Round-Trip Time
RTT Referenced Task Tag
RWND Receiver Window
RX_ID Responder Exchange ID
S_ID Source ID
SA Service Agent
SA Source Address
SA Security Association
SACK Selective Acknowledgement
SAF-TE SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures
SAL SCSI Application Layer
SAM SCSI-3 Architecture Model
SAN Storage Area Network
SANOS Storage Area Network Operating System
SAP Service Access Point
SAS Serial Attached SCSI
SASI Shugart Associates Systems Interface
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SBCCS Single-Byte Command Code Set
SCAM SCSI Configured Automatically
SCN State Change Notification
SCP Secure Copy
SCR State Change Registration
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SD SPAN Destination
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SDP Sockets Direct Protocol
SDU Service Data Unit
SE Single-Ended
SEQ_CNT Sequence Count
SEQ_ID Sequence Identifier
SES SCSI Enclosure Services
SF Special Frame
SFD Start of Frame Delimiter
SFF Small Form Factor
SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable
SFTP SSH File Transfer Protocol
SI Sequence Initiative
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLP Service Location Protocol
SMB Server Message Block
SMC SCSI Media Changer
SMF Single-Mode Fiber
SMI Structure of Management Information
SMI Storage Management Initiative
SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNACK Selective Negative Acknowledgment
SNAP Sub-Network Access Protocol
SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNMPv2 Simple Network Management Protocol version 2
SNMPv3 Simple Network Management Protocol version 3
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SNSM Speed Negotiation State Machine
SNTP Simple Network Time Protocol
SOA Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
SOF Start-of-Frame
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SPAN Switch Port Analyzer
SPC SCSI-3 Primary Commands
SPD Start_of_Packet Delimiter
SPE Synchronous Payload Envelope
SPF Shortest Path First
SPI SCSI Parallel Interface
SPI Security Parameter Index
SPKM Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism
SPMISM Switch Port Mode Initialization State Machine
SRM Storage Resource Management
SRP Spatial Reuse Protocol
SRP Secure Remote Password
SRR Sequence Retransmission Request
SSAP Source Service Access Point
SSB Sequence Status Block
SSH Secure Shell
SSID Session Identifier
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SSM Storage Services Module
SSP Storage Service Provider
ST Single Transition
ST SPAN Trunk
StatSN Status Sequence Number
STP Spanning Tree Protocol
STS-1 Synchronous Transport Signal level 1
SW_ACC Switch Internal Link Service Accept
SW_ILS Switch Internal Link Service
SW_RJT Switch Internal Link Service Reject
SW-RSCN Switch Registered State Change Notification
SYN Synchronize
TACACS+ Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus
TCB Transmission Control Block
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TE_Port Trunking Expansion Port
TLD Top Level Domain
TLS Transport Layer Security
TMF Task Management Function
TOE TCP Offload Engine
TOS Type of Service
TPC Third Party Copy
TPGT Target Portal Group Tag
TSecr Timestamp Echo Reply
TSIH Target Session Identifying Handle
TSopt Timestamps Option
TST Task Set Type
TSval Timestamp Value
TTL Time to Live
TTT Target Transfer Tag
U/L Universal/Local
UA User Agent
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UI Unnumbered Information
ULP Upper Layer Protocol
UNC Uniform Naming Convention
UNC Universal Naming Convention
URG Urgent
URL Universal Resource Locator
USM User-based Security Model
VACL VLAN Access Control List
VC_RDY Virtual_Circuit_Ready
VE_Port Virtual Expansion Port
VF Virtual Fabric
VI Virtual Interface
VID VLAN ID
VISL Virtual Inter-Switch Link
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VLSM Variable Length Subnet Mask
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
VSAN Virtual Storage Area Network
WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WINS Windows Internet Name Service
Winsock Windows Sockets
WIS WAN Interface Sublayer
WKA Well Known Address
WKP Well Known Port
WRED Weighted Random Early Detection
WSopt Window Scale Option
WWN Worldwide Name
WWNN Worldwide Node Name
WWPN Worldwide Port Name
XCOPY EXTENDED COPY
XDF Extended Distance Facility
XDR External Data Representation
XFP 10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable
XGMII 10-Gigabit Media Independent Interface
XML Extensible Markup Language
XTACACS Extended Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
