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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Austin, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Nilanjan Mukherjee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Badri Ramaswamy, Saratoga, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes a switching processor configured to execute logic, a plurality of ports, at least some of the ports being grouped together in one or more link aggregations (LAGs), logic adapted to create at least a first virtual local area network (VLAN) interface for Ethernet traffic using transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) that is received on at least one of the plurality of ports, and logic adapted to create at least a second VLAN for storage area network (SAN) traffic using Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and/or remote direct access memory (RDMA) over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (RoCEE) that is received on at least one of the plurality of ports, wherein no SAN traffic using FCoE and/or RoCEE is assigned to the first VLAN, and wherein no Ethernet traffic using TCP/IP is assigned to the second VLAN.