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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Peniel Charles, Bangalore, IN;
Pramod Kumar Puthanveettil Kurungodan, Bengaluru, IN;
Owen Crowley, Carrigaline, IE;
Dambarudhar Jani, Koraput, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, comprising: selecting an HBA entity that is currently turned on and which is part of a host device, the host device being coupled to a storage array, the host device being configured to read and write data to the storage array; identifying an identifier of the HBA entity; identifying, based on the identifier, a switch that is coupled to the HBA entity via a communications path; identifying one or more other communications paths that span between the host device and the switch; detecting whether a redundancy policy would be violated if the HBA entity were to be turned off, the redundancy policy including at least one rule that specifies a minimum number of active paths that must be present between the host device and the switch at any given time; turning off the HBA entity in response to detecting that the redundancy policy would not be violated.