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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2012
Applicants:
Samdeep Nayak, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wenhua Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chiao-chuan Shih, San Jose, CA (US);
Anne Marie Merritt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiangdong G. Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Samdeep Nayak, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wenhua Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chiao-Chuan Shih, San Jose, CA (US);
Anne Marie Merritt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiangdong G. Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/067 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for discovering a plurality of storage area network (SAN) devices for a virtual machine. At a SAN device of the plurality of SAN devices, physically adjacent SAN devices connected to the SAN device are discovered. The physically adjacent SAN devices connected to the SAN device are registered at a name server.