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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph C. Pittman, Apex, NC (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/6045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method executed by a client for reliably communicating between the client and a server over a Fiber Channel (FC) network. The method creating a first Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) request, including a virtual connection identifier, sending the first SCSI request to the server over the FC network, determining an action based on a status of the first SCSI request, creating a second SCSI request, including the virtual connection identifier, wherein the second SCSI request is based on the determined action, and sending the second SCSI request to the server over the FC network.