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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2018
Applicant:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew Strathman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oksana Aguilera, San Francisco, CA (US);
Smruthi Manjunath, Fremont, CA (US);
Bennett Amodio, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/15 (2022.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); H04L 69/326 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/15 (2013.01); G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); H04L 45/46 (2013.01); H04L 69/326 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0026 (2013.01);
Abstract
The embodiments provide for a method of expanding a clustered service. The method includes inserting a network layer, comprising multiple switch devices, between switch devices of a network and switch devices of a clustered service, rearranging connections of the switch devices of the network and the switch devices of the clustered service to form a multi-chassis link aggregation group (MC-LAG), and maintaining data traffic during the rearranging the connections.