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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2006
Katherine Tyldesley Blinick, Tucson, AZ (US);
Rezaul Shah Mohammad Islam, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg Steven Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Earl Medlin, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tohru Sumiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Katherine Tyldesley Blinick, Tucson, AZ (US);
Rezaul Shah Mohammad Islam, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregg Steven Lucas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Earl Medlin, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tohru Sumiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A high speed fabric is provided and is partitioned into sub-fabrics for host adapter traffic and device adapter traffic. A high-speed switch includes an expander for host adapter traffic and an expander for device adapter traffic. The high-speed switch also includes a plurality of connectors, where each connector is partitioned into dual interfaces. For each connector, one interface is connected to the host adapter traffic expander and the other interface is connected to the device adapter traffic expander. Blades are provided with one or more connectors, where each connector is partitioned into dual interfaces for host adapter traffic and device adapter traffic. The blades may be any combination of processor blades, boot drive enclosure blades, switched bunch of disks enclosure blades, and/or integrated RAID controller disk enclosure blades.