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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Joseph C. Pittman, Apex, NC (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for executed by a server for reliably communicating between the server and a client over a Fiber Channel (FC) network. The method includes receiving, from the client over the FC network, a first Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) request, including a virtual connection identifier in a logical block address field of a command descriptor block of the first SCSI request, validating the first SCSI request using the virtual connection identifier included in the first SCSI request, and responding to the first SCSI request by sending a first SCSI response, based on the validity of the first SCSI request, to the client over the FC network.