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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2008
Aaron C Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Scott M Carlson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Daniel G Eisenhauer, Austin, TX (US);
Roger G Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jeffrey W Palm, Rochester, MN (US);
Renato J Recio, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory J Tevis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Aaron C Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Scott M Carlson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Daniel G Eisenhauer, Austin, TX (US);
Roger G Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jeffrey W Palm, Rochester, MN (US);
Renato J Recio, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory J Tevis, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. An Ethernet component gateway in a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) initiator system converts FCoE data packets from host devices to Fiber Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) data packets for transmission to a Storage Area Network (SAN) target system. The SAN target system may include a target Fiber Channel (FC) storage device and a SAN component gateway. The SAN component gateway converts FCIP data packets to SAN data packets for use by the target FC storage device. The SAN data packets may be either FC protocol data packets or FCoE protocol data packets. The SAN target system may provide for discovery of target FC storage device adapter information.