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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2017
Dell Products Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for connecting a host device to target devices in a network through a switch of a plurality of switches, by: defining a special zone for targets that are not directly connected to the switch having the host; directly through the switch; discovering all targets connected to all ports of switch and other switches through a device discovery process; creating a switch-to-target mapping table for all discovered targets; sending a virtual discovery command to all the discovered host-target pairs using the switch-to-target mapping table; creating a virtual address translation table that maps an ID and address of the host to virtual IDs and addresses assigned for network ports of each host-target pairs; and transmitting network traffic between the host and target using the virtual address translation table.
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