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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2013
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Krishna Puttagunta, Rocklin, CA (US);
Satyaprakash Rao, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Rupin T. Mohan, Northborough, MA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments relate to protocol agnostic storage access with a software defined network (SDN). A method may include receiving, at a SDN enabled switch, an initialization packet to access a storage volume. The method may include determining, at the SDN enabled switch, a storage protocol used by the initialization packet, adding a protocol tag indicative of the storage protocol to the initialization packet, and sending the initialization packet to a SDN controller. The method may include identifying, at the SDN controller, a storage application based on the protocol tag and sending the initialization packet to the storage application. The storage application may be one of a plurality of storage applications, each associated with a different storage protocol. The method may include performing, by the storage application, protocol-specific tasks.