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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2015
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vidyasagara R. Guntaka, San Jose, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Manjunath A. G. Gowda, San Jose, CA (US);
Pasupathi Duraiswamy, Milpitas, CA (US);
Himanshu Varshney, San Jose, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a switch group module, a persistent storage module, and an allocation module. The switch group module maintains a membership in a switch group. The switch group includes a plurality of switches and operates as a single switch. The persistent storage module stores configuration information associated with the switch group in a data structure in a local persistent storage. The allocation module determines that a second switch is in a default mode and obtains a switch identifier from the persistent storage based on a switch media access control (MAC) address of the second switch. The allocation module then constructs a control message, which is destined for the second switch and includes the switch identifier and a switch group identifier of the switch group.