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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Harsha Bharadwaj, Bangalore, IN;
Ayan Banerjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Ramesh Sivakolundu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques for performing Internet Protocol (IP) switch-based Storage Area Networks (SANS) analytics management. An example method is performed by an IP switch. The method includes identifying information associated with Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe)/Transport Control Protocol (TCP) Protocol Data Units (PDUs) examined from an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) data path. The information can be stored based on the NVMe/TCP PDUs being included in separate corresponding TCP data segments, according to a handshake protocol. Alternatively or additionally, the information can be stored based on a metadata header being received as a first PDU in a TCP segment. The NVMe/TCP PDUs can be used to extract the information to populate connection and IO tables inside an ASIC. The storage I/O metrics may then be available from the tables.