Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual
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Emulex Drivers Version 10.2 for VMware ESXi User Manual
P010087-01A Rev. A
1. Introduction
Abbreviations
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PLOGI
port login
pNIC
physical NIC
POST
power on self test
RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ROM
read-only memory
RRQ
Reinstate Recovery Qualifier
SAN
storage area network
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
SLES
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLI
Service Level Interface
SR-IOV
single root I/O virtualization
TCP
transmission control protocol
TSO TCP
segmentation
offload
UCNA
universal converged network adapter
UMC
universal multichannel
VF
virtual function
VGT
virtual guest tagging
VIB
vSphere Installation Bundle
VLAN
virtual local area network
VM
virtual machine
vNIC
virtual NIC
VPort
virtual port
WWN
world wide name
WWNN
world wide node name
WWPN
world wide port name
x
Used to designate a variable. For example, SPx includes SP1, SP2, etc.