Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Alexander Kramer

Charles L Hudson

Robert Teisberg

Charles S Greenidge

David Kasperson

Subhajit Dasgupta

Nigel Thomas Cook

Neeraj Arora

Fred Kuhns

A network switching environment includes a network switch coupled to a port extension module by one or more network cables, and a management resource coupled to the switch and the port extension module. The configurations of the network switch and the port extension module may be dynamically controlled by a management resource to adjust to changes in the maximum bandwidth provided by the one or more network cables. The management resource may implement the network switch and port extension module configurations according to a predetermined target configuration and the connection configuration of the network switch and the port extension module.

Speed determination for network ports

Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to an interconnect including: a plurality of ports; a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium have instructions stored thereon, that when executed by a processor, cause the interconnect device to: track a link state of a first port of the plurality of ports, where tracking the link state of the first port comprises tracking when a physical link of the first port transitions between a linked state and an unlinked state; determine, using at least the tracking of when the physical link of the first port transitions between the linked state and the unlinked state, that the first port is in an unstable link state; and when the first port is in an unstable link state, transmitting a message to an interconnect management device, the message including an indication that the first port is in an unstable link state.

Interconnect port link state monitoring utilizing unstable link state analysis

A method of remotely accessing data on a network communication device including submitting a request for data on a network communication device located in a data center from a remote location. The method further including accessing remotely the network communication device located in the data center, collecting the data in the request from the network communication device located in the data center, filtering a user parameter from the data, and providing filtered data to the remote location.

Remote monitoring of network communication devices

A system and method are provided for interfacing a Fiber Channel network to an Ethernet based network. The method includes the operation of establishing a connection between a Fiber Channel device and an NPIV interface in an Ethernet interconnect module (). Another operation is processing a fabric login from a server on the Ethernet based network, along with a server identifier that is sent to the Fiber Channel device (). Acknowledgement frames for fabric login from the Fiber Channel device can be examined in order to identify the N_Port ID of the server (). In another operation, the server's MAC address can be retrieved from a table using the N_Port ID (). Then an Ethernet packet can be sent to the server using the server MAC address (). The Ethernet packet contains a Fabric Provided MAC Address used to enable the server to communicate with the Fiber Channel device.

Method for interfacing a fibre channel network with an ethernet based network

According to one embodiment, a server is automatically deployed using a pre-provisioned logical volume LV. A first world wide name WWNis associatedwith a logical volume LVassociated with a disk array controller. A second world wide name WWN, which is assigned to a server S, is receivedat the disk array controller. Ifthe first world wide name WWNis the same as the second world wide name WWN, the server Sis enabledto access the logical volume LV. The first and second world wide names are not required to be assigned to any server S, Sat the time that the first world wide name is associated with the logical volume.

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Frisco, TX, United States of America

Alexander Kramer