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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tara Astigarraga, Fairport, NY (US);
Louie A. Dickens, Tucson, AZ (US);
Michael E. Starling, Bonsall, CA (US);
Daniel J. Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Buffer credits are starved upon a storage area network (SAN) switch. The starved buffer credit restricts a SAN switch buffer and enables a smaller load to stress the SAN switch, effectively emulating a larger load. Credit starvation may partially inhibit a SAN switch from delivering frames resulting in the filling of the SAN switch buffer and corresponding computational stress. The emulated load allows for all ports of a SAN switch to be simultaneously tested without the need or expense of a large number computing devices stressing the SAN. The SAN switch may be located within a test SAN environment or may be located in a functioning SAN environment to determine SAN bottlenecks prior to critical loading.