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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Joseph C. Pittman, Apex, NC (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method executed by a server for connecting with 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 to establish a virtual connection, assigning an identifier to the virtual connection, responding to the first SCSI request by sending a first SCSI response, including the virtual connection identifier to the client over the FC network, receiving, from the client, a second SCSI request including the virtual connection identifier and a descriptor for a server process at the server, and associating the virtual connection with a server process at the server corresponding to the server process descriptor.