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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2009
Claudio Desanti, San Jose, CA (US);
Claudio DeSanti, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for a Generic Service locking mechanism that enables a Host to lock the Fibre Channel Switching Fabric of a storage area network while applying changes across the Switching Fabric of the network is disclosed. The apparatus includes a network interface configured to send and receive Fibre Channel frames across the Fabric, a session element, responsive to the network interface, and configured to establish sessions with the Fabric; and a locking element configured issue commands to establish a lock over the Fabric so that replicated information across the Fabric can be consistently updated when the session element establishes a session with the Fabric. In one embodiment of the invention, the network interface, session element and the locking element are all implemented on each Switch of the Fabric.