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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2009
Kalyan Chakravarthy Nidumolu, San Jose, CA (US);
Parthiban Munusamy, Fremont, CA (US);
Anand Parthasarathy, Fremont, CA (US);
Prakashkumar Manickam, Fremont, CA (US);
Kalyan Chakravarthy Nidumolu, San Jose, CA (US);
Parthiban Munusamy, Fremont, CA (US);
Anand Parthasarathy, Fremont, CA (US);
Prakashkumar Manickam, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for redirecting fiber channel data transmitted between nodes in a fiber channel fabric. The redirection allows traffic sent from a host to a target in a storage area network (SAN) to flow through a cascade of applications provided by certain nodes of the fabric (or in some cases, by external appliances). That is, techniques are disclosed for application chaining in the SAN. Doing so allows the SAN to be used as a true network platform for providing a variety of intelligent services within the network (e.g., data migration, encryption, etc).