Oracle Fabric Interconnect Hardware User's Guide

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Updated: July 2016
 
 

Glossary

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ACL (Access Control List)

A collection of rule sets, rules, conditions, and actions that are compared against network traffic to determine if an action should be taken on the traffic.

ACL rule set

A collection of one or more rules that are configured to create an ACL.

ACL rules

A collection of conditions and an action that are compared to network traffic. If the comparison of the rule to the network traffic results in a match, then the action is enforced. If multiple rules are configured in a rule set, each rule is ORed.

ACL conditions

Individual network traffic conditions that can be configured in an ACL rule. Some examples of ACL conditions are source/destination addresses that match network traffic, and IPToS bits with a specific value. If multiple conditions are configured in a rule, the conditions are ANDed.

ACL action

A single action that can be configured in an ACL rule. The action is the enforced result after network traffic is successfully matched against one or more ACL conditions.

H
HA vNICs

High Availability vNIC - A pair of virtual Ethernet interfaces, that are both assigned to the same server profile, but terminated on different physical interfaces.

HCA

Host Channel Adapter - A hardware card, installed in a physical server, that provides high-speed connectivity and virtual interfaces, based on the InfiniBand interface.

I
I/O Card

A physical card that is installed in one of 15 slots in the chassis' card bay. The Fabric Interconnect supports the following types of I/O card: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Host Bus Adapter. The Ethernet and Host Bus Adapter modules provide access to Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks, respectively.

I/O Port

A single port on an Ethernet module, a Host Bus Adapter module, or one of the 24 InfiniBand ports on the Fabric Interconnect InfiniBand Fabric board.

I/O Slot

A single slot in the Oracle Fabric Interconnect chassis. A slot can be populated with an I/O card, pre-provisioned for a specific I/O card, or not populated with a module.

M
Managed Object

An object-oriented representation of a resource managed in a device. This can be a physical or logical resource.

P
Policy

Configuration of automatic system behavior (such as, statistics collection, database cleanup, and so on.)

Q
Quality of Service

The Quality of Service (QoS) object allows the data traffic of individual applications to be managed. The performance of a particular application can be guaranteed by raising the priority of its dataflow, relative to the other applications.

R
Role

One of the privilege levels that a user may be assigned (for example, “Operators” or “Administrators”) that affects what objects in the XgOS the user can add, delete, or modify.

S
Server Profile

One instance of a server I/O configuration that is assignable to a single physical server through an IB port.

System

An object that identifies a given system at the highest (“top”) level in the object model hierarchy.

U
User

An internal or external representation of a person. Users either exist locally or remotely through LDAP, Active Directory, or RADIUS. By default, an “admin” user is created locally.

V
vHBA

Virtual Host Bus Adapter, which is a Fibre Channel storage connection, provided without a physical HBA.

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network - A private, independent, logical network that is created within a physical network. A VLAN behaves like an ordinary LAN, but connected devices do not have to be physically connected to the same network segment.

vNIC

Virtual Network Interface Card - An Ethernet connection, provided without a physical NIC.