发明申请
- 专利标题: Merging a Stand-Alone Switch to a Fibre Channel Network
- 专利标题(中): 将独立交换机并入光纤通道网络
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申请号: US13176940申请日: 2011-07-06
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公开(公告)号: US20130010638A1公开(公告)日: 2013-01-10
- 发明人: Christian Sasso , Siddharth Kasat , Ankur Goyal , Amitkumar Patel , Kishan Kumar Kotari Uppanda
- 申请人: Christian Sasso , Siddharth Kasat , Ankur Goyal , Amitkumar Patel , Kishan Kumar Kotari Uppanda
- 申请人地址: US CA San Jose
- 专利权人: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- 当前专利权人: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA San Jose
- 主分类号: H04L12/28
- IPC分类号: H04L12/28
摘要:
A Fibre Channel (FC) switch and related methods are provided for merging the FC switch with an existing FC network. During a merge process of a stand-alone switch with an FC network, a first Exchange Fabric Parameters (EFP) frame is sent from the stand-alone switch to an FC switch in the existing FC network. The first EFP frame has an empty domain identifier (ID) list. The stand-alone switch receives a second EFP frame from the FC switch. The second EFP frame contains a domain ID list of domain IDs already in use in the FC network. The stand-alone switch compares the domain ID list in the second EFP frame with a stored list of one or more domain IDs associated with the stand-alone switch to determine if there is a domain ID overlap or conflict. If no conflict is detected, the stand-alone switch merges with the existing network without initiating a Build Fabric phase or a Principal Switch Selection phase that could cause disruption of traffic in the network.
公开/授权文献
- US08811227B2 Merging a stand-alone switch to a fibre channel network 公开/授权日:2014-08-19