Symantec Corporation

Veritas Technologies LLC

Sathish Nayak

Prasanta Ranjan Dash

Amarinder Singh Randhawa

Sumit Sharma

Venkatesha Maphalamajalu Ganapathi

A system and method for determining a status of a connection path. For example, the method can include receiving a control message at a first node of a number of nodes that are configured to form a cluster, identifying a second node of the nodes as a node from which the control message was received, identifying a storage device to which the second node is coupled; and determining a status of a connection path. The connection path is between the first node and the second node, and the second node and the storage device. The first node includes a first computer system, and the second node includes a second computer system.

Method to discover multiple paths to disk devices cluster wide

A system and method for discovering multiple paths to a disk device are disclosed. For example, the method can include discovering a plurality of paths that exist from a first host computer to a storage device. The plurality of paths includes at least one local path and at least one network path from the first host computer to the storage device. In addition, the first host computer is one of several host computers in a cluster. Once the paths have been discovered, a representation of the paths from the first host computer to the storage device is generated. Such a method can be performed, for example, without user intervention.

A computer-implemented method for selectively discovering storage devices connected to a host computing device may include: 1) identifying at least one storage device connected to the host computing device that provides storage for at least one resource managed by the host computing device, 2) identifying a discovery classification assigned to the storage device that is based at least in part on an availability requirement associated with the resource, and then 3) discovering the storage device in accordance with the discovery classification assigned to the storage device. Various other methods, systems, and configured computer-readable media are also disclosed.

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