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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2017
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Shiv Haris, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Phanidhar Koganti, Fremont, CA (US);
Vidyasagara R. Guntaka, San Jose, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a port to couple to a second switch. The switch also includes a control mechanism configured to maintain a set of configuration information for a virtual cluster switch which includes a number of member switches. The set of configuration information includes global configuration information for the virtual cluster switch and switch-specific configuration information for one or more member switches. In addition, the set of configuration information is replicated and stored at each member switch.