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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Daniel I. Goodman, Beit Shemesh, IL;
Avihu Turzion, Givat Avni, IL;
Rohit Krishna Prasad, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Ravi A. Shankar, Austin, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include establishing, by a storage system coupled to a first host computer via a storage area network (SAN), metrics indicating a status of the first host computer, and storing the indicated metrics to the storage system. A second host computer, coupled to the storage system via the storage area network, determines an availability of the first host computer based on the metrics.