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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2014
Virtual Instruments Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Ana Bertran Ortiz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas York, San Ramon, CA (US);
Genti Cuni, Mountain View, CA (US);
Virtual Instruments Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An information system identifies redundant communication paths between a server and a storage device in a storage area network and classifies the state of the paths according to the distribution of workload amongst them. To make the classification, the information system pairs up active paths. For each pair of active paths, the information system identifies traffic data of the two paths. The information system compares the traffic data of the two paths. Based on the comparison, the information system determines whether workload is balanced or imbalanced between the two paths.