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Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 22, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Gerald Francis McBrearty, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/25 (2013.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
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.


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