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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
May. 06, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Igor Achkinazi, Northboro, MA (US);
Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments herein comprise obtaining states of network links of paths from an initiator (e.g., host) to a target (e.g., storage subsystem) to determine weight factors for the paths in a multipath scenario between the initiator and the target. Given the weight factors, they may be used with an NVMe initiator implementation of a multipath weight/load-balancing methodology or system to distribute workloads (e.g., IO tasks/requests) across the paths of the set of paths in the multipath. In one or more embodiments, each state may have a metric associated with it, which may act as a cost or be used to determine/assign a cost to the corresponding link. In one or more embodiments, one or more additional rules may be set for converting metrics to costs, costs and/or metrics to weights, and/or for distributing the workloads.