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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2012
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Michael G Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Pruthviraj Herur Puttaiah, Houston, TX (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Michael G Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Pruthviraj Herur Puttaiah, Houston, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An example method includes (i) creating, by a first serial attached SCSI (SAS) switch, a first topology map describing a portion of a SAS fabric associated with the first SAS switch; (ii) receiving, at the first SAS switch and from a second SAS switch, a second topology map describing a portion of the SAS fabric associated with the second SAS switch; and (iii) merging, by the first SAS switch, the first topology map and the second topology map to produce a consolidated topology map of the SAS fabric.