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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Siamack Ayandeh, Littleton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/939 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); H04L 41/0873 (2013.01); H04L 49/351 (2013.01); H04L 49/357 (2013.01); H04L 49/557 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example of high availability for FC or FCoE can include maintaining connection state information in a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Data Forwarder (FDF) or Fiber Channel Data Forwarder (FcDF). A failure of a first FCoE Forwarder (FCF) associated with the FDF can be detected. A second FCF can check a configuration file of the second FCF to see if the second FCF is responsible for the FDF. The second FCF can request the virtual domain ID, of the failed FCF, from a principal switch. The second FCF can be used as a service node for the FDF.