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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2005
Manjunath A. Gopal Gowda, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
Manjunath A. Gopal Gowda, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An port expander Fiber Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fiber Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fiber Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The port expander may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fiber Channel fabric. Fabric events engendered by the insertion or removal of hot-pluggable devices are handled by the port expander and 'event storms' on the Fiber Channel fabric are avoided. The port expander presents the blade servers to the FC fabric as a virtualized N_port.