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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2021
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Joseph G. Kanjirathinkal, Cary, NC (US);
Manikandan Sethuraman, Bangalore, IN;
Peniel Charles, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for storage area network (SAN) connectivity management using switch fabric conditions. One method comprises ranking switches in a SAN that provides connectivity between host devices and storage arrays, wherein the ranking is based on a port utilization metric for a subset of the switches and/or an evaluation of switch performance degradation events associated with one or more of the switches; evaluating an input/output load of a workload executing on a host device; and determining a path between a given host device and a given storage array through the SAN based on the ranking and the evaluated input/output load of the workload. For a workload being deployed on a new host device, the evaluating may comprise determining an application type of the workload. Alternate switches may be identified based on a comparison of a peak load of a given switch and a peak load of an alternate switch for at least one time period.