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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2015
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventor:
Robert Fair, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0654 (2013.01); H04L 41/0813 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments are described for systems and methods that facilitates dynamic configuration of NPIV virtual ports in a Fiber Channel network. A defined failure detection method in conjunction with certain SCSI target endpoint and NPIV definitions and monitor component operations allows SCSI target virtual endpoints to be dynamically created, deleted and managed during data migration and endpoint disable/enable operations in a backup storage appliance without incurring disruption of other virtual endpoints on the same appliance.