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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
May. 04, 2022
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Gary Allen Fisher, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 67/1097 (2022.01); H04L 45/302 (2022.01); H04L 45/42 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/3065 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention are directed to utilizing an extension to software defined networking (SDN) to manage storage area networks (SANs) by receiving, at a switch configured with and managed by a SDN architecture, at least one table. The at least one table being operable in the SDN architecture and including routing information. The switch routes traffic over a SAN using the routing information in the at least one table.