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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2007
Arthur F. Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vijayan Rajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mohan Srinivasan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Herman Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Pawlowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arthur F. Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vijayan Rajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mohan Srinivasan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Herman Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Pawlowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for clustered failover of storage appliances is provided. In the event of a failover of one storage appliance to a surviving storage appliance, the surviving storage appliance assumes the identity of the failed storage appliance. This assumption of the identifier is accomplished by initializing a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter on the surviving storage appliance with the NodeName and PortNames of the failed storage appliance.