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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2011
Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Austin, TX (US);
Roger G. Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Henry J. May, Rochester, MN (US);
Louis W. Ricci, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Austin, TX (US);
Roger G. Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Henry J. May, Rochester, MN (US);
Louis W. Ricci, Hyde Park, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
System and computer program product embodiments for fiber channel forwarder fabric login sequence in a fiber channel switch environment, where a Fiber Channel Forwarder (cFCF) is separated from a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) data forwarder (FDF), are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, at a Fiber Channel Login (FLOGI) to a target device from an initiator device, a node address acceptance notification is held from reaching the initiator device until each of the zoning distributions have been considered to have been completed.