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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2020
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Erik Smith, Douglas, MA (US);
Joseph LaSalle White, San Jose, CA (US);
David Black, Acton, MA (US);
Raja Subbiah, Chennai, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Presented herein are embodiments for implicitly or indirectly registering elements of a non-volatile memory express (NVMe™) entity in an NVMe-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF) environment. In one or more embodiments, one or more interactions between an NVMe™ entity and a centralized storage fabric service component, such as part of the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) process or the Multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) process, may be used by the centralized storage fabric service to extract information about the NVMe™ entity and automatically register it with a centralized registration datastore. In one or more embodiments, the centralized registration datastore may be used to facilitate services in the NVMe-oF system, such as discovery of NVMe™ entities, provisioning, and access control. In one or more embodiments, an implicitly registered NVMe™ entity may also subsequently explicitly register, which may include supplying additional information about the NVMe™ entity.