Glossary

A

Admin State

Administrative State. The intention of the operator by setting a given resource up or down. See also Oper State.

C

CLI

The Oracle Fabric OS CLI. (This CLI is separate from the Oracle Fabric Manager CLI.)

E

EDR

Enhanced Data Rate.

F

fabric

Oracle’s EDR InfiniBand fabric. A 100-Gb converged fabric for network, storage, and interprocess communication.

G

gateway

The connections between the IB fabric and the data center LAN. Ethernet gateways present a collection of NICs to the Ethernet LAN.

gateway port

A general term that includes both IB ports and Ethernet gateway ports.

GB

Abbreviation of Gigabyte.

GbE

Abbreviation of GigabitEthernet.

Gbit/sec

Abbreviation of Gigabits per second.

GUI

Graphical user interface. The recommended interface for Oracle Fabric Manager 5.0.2.

H

HA

High Availability.

HBA

Host bus adaptor. A Fibre Channel NIC used in a SAN fabric. HBAs are replacing SCSI HBAs.

HCA

Host channel adapter. An InfiniBand NIC used in an InfiniBand network. Provides high-speed connectivity and virtual interfaces, based on the IB interface. An HCA can have one or two ports.

I

IB

InfiniBand. A high bandwidth messaging technology used for very high performance computing.

ILOM

See Oracle ILOM.

I/O

Input/output. In computer architecture, the combination of the CPU and main memory (that is, memory that the CPU can read and write to directly, with individual instructions) is considered the "heart" of a computer. Any movement of information to or from that complex, for example to or from a disk drive, is considered I/O.

I/O module

A user-replaceable physical interface component for the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F2-12 andOracle InfiniBand Switch IS2-254.

I/O port

A single port on an Ethernet module, an HBA module, or one of the 38 IB server ports.

L

LAG

Link Aggregation Group.

LID

Local identifier for the HCA or local identifier number that the IB path uses.

M

MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit. The largest physical packet size (in bytes) that a network can transmit. MTU values are only applicable to Ethernet ports, and the MTU of the I/O port must match the MTU of the neighboring switch.

module

A user-replaceable component for a switch chassis. Typically externally accessible. See also I/O module.

N

NIC

Network interface card.

O

Oper State

Operative State. Indicates whether a resource is configured and operating properly. See also Admin State.

Oracle EDR InfiniBand Fabric

The fabric used to build and manage an Oracle cloud network infrastructure.

Oracle Fabric Manager

Oracle Fabric Manager is a GUI that enables you to configure and manage Oracle fabricdevices and the virtual network and storage resources associated with the fabric devices.

Oracle Fabric OS

The Oracle Fabric OS 1.0.2 runs on the Oracle InfiniBand Switch IS2-46 (leaf switch) and the Oracle Fabric Interconnect F2-12 (virtualization switch). The Oracle Fabric OS manages the switches, the Oracle EDR InfiniBand Fabric devices, and virtual network and storage resources.

Oracle ILOM

Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) is the service processor embedded on all Oracle's SPARC Enterprise T-series and Sun Fire x86 servers, including all rack mounts and blades. Oracle ILOM enables full out-of-band management, providing a remote management capability.

S

SFP+

Abbreviation for small form-factor pluggable. A form-factor for high-speed data interconnects.

server profile

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

state

Displayed in Oracle Fabric Manager and the CLI as a pair of statuses, for example: up/up. The first is the Admin State while the second is the Oper State. When using SNMP, these statuses are returned individually.

subnet manager

Configures all aspects of an IB fabric, including assigning LIDs to all HCAs and switch ports in the fabric, providing lookup service for end nodes, configuring program switch forwarding tables based upon the selected routing algorithm, and programming PKEY tables for HCAs and switches.

V

virtualization switch

Oracle Fabric Interconnect F2- Switch. This virtualization switch supports several I/O modules that provide FC and Ethernet connectivity.

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 don't have to be physically connected to the same network segment.

vNIC

Virtual network interface card. An Ethernet interface, provided without a physical NIC.