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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2015
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Robert Fair, Cary, NC (US);
Hendrik Tanto, San Jose, CA (US);
Shobhan Kumar Chinnam, Cupertino, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are described for systems and methods that transparently virtualize SCSI transport endpoints for management purposes between Fiber Channel base nodes and virtual nodes. An N_Port ID Virtualization mapping component maps multiple endpoints to a single physical port. The endpoints are abstract objects that have attributes can be moved around the system. This allows virtual port management (e.g., port migration, moving ports, removing ports, adding ports, etc.) to be performed on many virtual ports in a unified manner. This allows storage area network to be configured with virtual endpoints that span both base and virtual ports.