Invention Application
- Patent Title: Storage Network Element Discovery Method and Apparatus
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Application No.: US15599005Application Date: 2017-05-18
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Publication No.: US20170316018A1Publication Date: 2017-11-02
- Inventor: Haitao Guo , Yu Zhang , Yajun Chen
- Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A storage network element discovery method and an apparatus, where the method includes broadcasting or multicasting, by a control network element, a heartbeat message to at least one storage network element, where the heartbeat message includes address information of the control network element, receiving, by the control network element, a response message returned by at least one storage network element according to the heartbeat message, and determining an accessible storage network element according to the response message, where the response message includes network parameter information of the corresponding storage network element. Therefore, in a storage array, by broadcasting or multicasting a heartbeat message and according to a reply from a storage network element, a control network element may determine a storage network element that can be accessed by the control network element.
Public/Granted literature
- US10372673B2 Storage network element discovery method and apparatus Public/Granted day:2019-08-06
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