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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2015
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Chung, San Jose, CA (US);
Badrinath Kollu, San Jose, CA (US);
Brocade Communications System, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Is in a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) and its included routers, the routers are placed in groups or pods. Each router only contains router port and fabric access data for routers in the same group or pod. In this manner the size of the relevant tables are reduced, which allows for greater expansion of the SAN as a whole. Each router may be programmed by an administrator with a pod value, indicating the pod containing the router. This value may be provided to the Name Server during router registration and may be requested from the Name Server when developing the router's inter-fabric router (IFR) topology or the pod value can be exchanged in the IF_ILS_HLO messages. Router port database information is only stored from routers in the same pod or provided to routers in the same pod, thus reducing the entries in the router port database.