Method to separate fibre channel switch core functions and fabric management in a storage area network
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsSurender Brahmaroutu, Sadiq Shaik
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Abstract
A method to separate fibre channel switch core functions and fabric management in a storage area network is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a method of separating fibre channel switch core functions and management of a fabric in an information handling system includes separating data oriented functions and fabric oriented functions into distinct components. The method further including maintaining the data oriented functions in one or more switches. The method further including assigning the fabric oriented functions to a fabric manager, wherein the fabric manager comprises a separate component interconnected with the one or more switches.
Claims20
A method of separating fibre channel switch core functions and management of a fabric in an information handling system, comprising:
- separating data oriented functions and fabric oriented functions into distinct components;
- maintaining the data oriented functions in one or more switches;
- and
- assigning the fabric oriented functions to a fabric manager, wherein the fabric manager comprises a separate component interconnected with the one or more switches.
A storage area network, comprising:
- one or more storage units operable to store data;
- a fibre channel switch communicatively coupled to the one or more storage units, the fibre channel switch operable to perform data oriented functions;
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- a fabric manager, independent of the fibre channel switch and communicatively coupled to the fibre channel switch, operable to perform fabric oriented functions.
An apparatus for separating fibre channel switch core functions and management of a fabric in a storage area network, comprising:
- a fabric manager communicatively coupled to a fibre channel switch, wherein the fabric manager is independent from the fibre channel switch;
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- the fabric manager operable to perform fabric oriented functions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.