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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gerald Francis McBrearty, Austin, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
By querying a set of fabrics to determine an initiator logged into a fabric in the set of fabrics, a set of accessible fabrics is discovered, an accessible fabric in the set of accessible fabrics accessible to the initiator, an initiator comprising a transceiver connecting a server to a switch, a fabric in the set of fabrics comprising a switch connecting a server to a storage device, the storage device comprising a storage volume. Using a fabric usage policy, a set of allowed fabrics within the set of accessible fabrics is determined. Using the set of allowed fabrics, a storage volume is mapped to a server, the mapping enabling the server to access the storage volume via a fabric in the set of allowed fabrics.