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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2008
Louis Henry Odenwald, Jr., Wichita, KS (US);
Roger Hickerson, Wichita, KS (US);
Louis Henry Odenwald, Jr., Wichita, KS (US);
Roger Hickerson, Wichita, KS (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention include a method, apparatus and system for managing SAS zoning, using end device grouping. A SAS end device grouping management application is configured to group SAS end devices, such as SAS initiator devices and SAS target devices, into any number of zones or zone configurations. The end device grouping application uses these defined zones to create a minimal number of zone groups, e.g., by creating one zone group per defined zone and populating the zone group with the ZPSDS entry point phys of the end devices in the zone from which the zone group is based, and to configure the respective permissions of the created zone groups. The end device grouping application then compares all existing zone groups for common phys and removes them to a new zone group. The zone groups are compared and processed in this manner until no zone groups have common phys.