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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gerald McBrearty, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for dynamically updating a zoning methodology on a fibre channel (FC) fabric are provided. One example method generally includes receiving a request to provision storage to a virtual machine (VM) via the FC fabric connecting a host machine of the VM to a storage area network (SAN) and determining a dynamic zoning methodology to use for the VM. The method further includes determining a previous zoning methodology in use by the fabric, updating the FC fabric from the previous zoning methodology to the dynamic zoning methodology by modifying a zoning table of the FC fabric and activating the dynamic zoning methodology on the FC fabric.