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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2011
Kalyan K. Ghosh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Praveen Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Shashank Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Tushar Desai, Foster City, CA (US);
Kalyan K. Ghosh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Praveen Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Shashank Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Tushar Desai, Foster City, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
N_Ports and F_Ports are provided with logic allowing designation of multiple virtual interfaces on a single host bus adaptor or other Fiber Channel interface, one virtual interface for each VSAN operating on the node interface. Node ports with this additional functionality are referred to as trunking N_Ports or TN_Ports. These ports have a functional design allowing creation of the multiple virtual interfaces as appropriate for the application at hand. This port design also includes logic for communicating with a peer fabric port to initialize and modify the configuration of the virtual interfaces on the TN_Port. A corresponding functional design and communication logic is provided for fabric ports, referred to herein as trunking F_Ports or TF_Ports.