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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2012
Siamack Ayandeh, Concord, MA (US);
Siamack Ayandeh, Concord, MA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Network devices, systems, and methods, including executable instructions and/or logic thereon to achieve fiber channel one for N (1:N) redundancy. A network device includes a processing resource coupled to a memory. The memory includes program instructions executed by the processing resource to group a number of switches in a 1:N cluster and provide each switch with a (virtual) A_Port link to all members of the 1:N cluster. If a failure of a fiber channel over ethernet forwarder (FCF) occurs, the program instructions execute to re-establish or redirect a connection over an alternate path through a redundant FCF without having to synchronize a connection state across all switches in the cluster.