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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Qlogic, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Shishir Shah, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
QLOGIC, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0689 (2013.01);
Abstract
A machine implemented method is provided. The method comprises configuring a target port of a target storage array as a plurality of virtual ports; wherein an application executed by a computing system uses the target port to access storage space at the storage array; presenting the plurality of virtual ports to an operating system instance executed by a computing system processor; and using the plurality of virtual ports to read and write information to the storage space of the target storage array.