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Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2012
Applicants:

David A. Gillam, The Colony, TX (US);

Ameer M. Jabbar, Lilburn, GA (US);

Anurag Jain, Murphy, TX (US);

Stephen A. Mendes, Wellesley, MA (US);

Sukesh Kumar Biddappa, Murphy, TX (US);

Inventors:

David A. Gillam, The Colony, TX (US);

Ameer M. Jabbar, Lilburn, GA (US);

Anurag Jain, Murphy, TX (US);

Stephen A. Mendes, Wellesley, MA (US);

Sukesh Kumar Biddappa, Murphy, TX (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and apparatus to create zones for ports from a storage layer to a compute layer both coupled to a storage area network switch. In one embodiment, the storage layer includes ports in field replaceable unit (FRU) port groups, the port groups in FRU adapters, and the adapters in FRU adapter groups. The ports can be selected to minimize single points of failure.


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