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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2012
Applicant:
Siamack Ayandeh, Concord, MA (US);
Inventor:
Siamack Ayandeh, Concord, MA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2013.01); H04L 49/357 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for fiber channel (FC) host virtualization includes determining a virtual N_Port identification (ID) that is assigned and used by a host to route a frame from the host to a switch of a FC storage area network (SAN) fabric, and determining a FC SAN fabric based location N_Port ID that is assigned by the FC SAN fabric to the host to route the frame within the FC SAN fabric. The method further includes mapping, by a processor, the host assigned virtual N_Port ID to the FC SAN fabric based location N_Port ID.