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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2010
Ganesan Rajagopal, Bangalore, IN;
Sunil John Varghese, Bangalore, IN;
Ganesan Rajagopal, Bangalore, IN;
Sunil John Varghese, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided herein for receiving at a first network device, a virtual local area network (VLAN) discovery frame from a second network device. The second network device is configured to encapsulate Fiber Channel over Ethernet. The hardware media access control (MAC) address or Port World Wide Name (PWWN) of the second network device is extracted from the VLAN discovery frame. A mapping is identified between the second network device and a corresponding virtual storage area network (VSAN) based on the hardware MAC address or PWWN. The mapping identifies a corresponding VLAN for the second network device to use for login in order to communicate with the corresponding VSAN. Information representing the identified VLAN is sent to the second network device.