This enumerated field carries the specific sub-type classification UCS Manager assigns to this FC SAN cloud within its object model. For the fabric interconnect's switched Fibre Channel/FCoE uplink domain, i.e. the SAN traffic reaches once it leaves the fabric interconnect toward an upstream FC/FCoE switch, the type value is what UCS Manager's fault and configuration logic uses internally to decide which validation rules and default behaviors apply to this specific object, as opposed to other kinds of construct that share the same parent container in the fabric MIB. An admin reading this value in a dump would see one of a small, fixed set of type strings defined for this class rather than free text.