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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
May. 09, 2016
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Hiren A. Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
Haresh K. Shah, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Saikrishna M. Kotha, Austin, TX (US);
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes systems and methods for expanding the port count in a single Fiber Channel domain by adding modular Fiber Channel switches. Such a system includes a system enclosure that contains a plurality of Fiber Channel modules configured to send and receive Fiber Channel packets, the Fiber Channel modules providing a plurality of Fiber Channel ports and a switch processor coupled to the plurality of Fiber Channel ports and to a plurality of Ethernet ports. The switch processor is configured to apply a stacking header to Fiber Channel packets for transmission from one of the plurality of Ethernet ports over a stacking link to another switch processor in another system enclosure.