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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2014
Support for converged fiber channel over ethernet (fcoe) traffic on software defined networks (sdns)
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Rupal A. Kaneriya, Fremont, CA (US);
Ashish Kapur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Khurram Khani, Mountain House, CA (US);
Vishal Shukla, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Naveen Kumar Vemulapalli, San Jose, CA (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte, Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes a software defined network (SDN) controller connected to SDN-capable switch(es), the SDN controller being configured to communicate with and program the SDN-capable switches, wherein each of the SDN-capable switches is configured to communicate with the SDN controller, one or more fiber channel forwarders (FCFs) connected to the SDN-capable switches, storage area network (SAN) fabric(s), and local area network (LAN) fabric(s), and at least one end node connected directly or indirectly to the SDN-capable switches and/or the one or more FCFs, wherein the SDN controller is configured to collect information from the one or more FCFs that corresponds with each of the one or more FCFs via fiber channel initialization protocol (FIP) advertisement frames, and create and manage a FCF database, the FCF database including the information that corresponds with each of the one or more FCFs.