Storage device, controller, and address management method
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsShun ANDO, Yuji NODA
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Abstract
A storage device has a wide link in which any one of addresses that a server has is assigned to a plurality of ports that are connected to the server. A change detecting unit detects a change in the state of any port of the ports. When a change is detected, an address acquiring unit acquires the addresses that are assigned to the ports. An address expecting unit and a physical-address acquiring unit, in accordance with the acquired addresses and with identification information for identifying the ports, manage addresses that the plurality of connection-ports-connected-server can possibly have.
Claims5
A storage device that has a wide link in which any one of addresses that a server has is assigned to a plurality of connection ports that are connected to the server, the storage device comprising:
- a detecting unit that detects a change in the state of any port of the connection ports;
- an address acquiring unit that acquires, when a change is detected by the detecting unit, addresses that are assigned to the connection ports;
- and
- an address management unit that manages, in accordance with the addresses acquired by the address acquiring unit and with identification information for identifying the connection ports, an address that the plurality of connection-ports-connected-server can possibly have.
A controller comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, wherein the processor executes:
- detecting a change in the state of any port of a plurality of connection ports that are assigned with any one of addresses that a server has;
- acquiring, when a change is detected by the detecting, addresses that are assigned to the connection ports;
- and
- storing, in accordance with the addresses acquired by the acquiring and with identification information for identifying the connection ports, an address that the plurality of connection-ports-connected-server can possibly have in the memory.
An address management method in which a storage device that is connected to a server manages a plurality of addresses that the server has, the address management method comprising:
- detecting a change in the state of any port of a plurality of connection ports that are assigned with any one of the addresses that the server has;
- acquiring, when a change is detected by the detecting, addresses that are assigned to the connection ports;
- expecting, when an address acquired by the acquiring is assigned to an unused connection port, consecutive addresses that the server can possibly have in accordance with the address and then storing the expected addresses and identifiers of the connection ports in a storage unit;
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- when any unexpected address that is assigned to a used connection port is found in the addresses acquired by the acquiring, acquiring an address that is assigned physically by the server for each of the connection ports that are connected to the server and then storing the acquired addresses of the connection ports and identifiers of the connection ports in the storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.