Data storage over fibre channel
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsMatthew Jack BURBRIDGE, Andrew TODD, Craig DRISCOLL
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Abstract
In some examples, a server receives, from a client running data storage software, an Ethernet payload encapsulated in a Fibre Channel Small Computer System Interface payload transmitted over FC. In some examples, the extracted Ethernet payload is forwarded to a virtualized Ethernet network device on the server and the virtualized Ethernet network device is interfaced with the data storage software of the client.
Claims15
A server comprising:
- a communication module including a Fibre Channel (FC) port to connect over FC to a client running data storage software to receive from the client an Ethernet payload encapsulated within an FC Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) payload;
- an extraction module to extract the Ethernet payload from the SCSI payload;
- a virtualization module to virtualize an Ethernet network device on the server;
- a forwarding module to forward the Ethernet payload to the virtualized Ethernet network device;
- and
- an interface module to interface the virtualized Ethernet network device with the data storage software on the client.
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a client running data storage software, an Ethernet payload encapsulated in a Fibre Channel (FC) Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) payload transmitted over FC;
- extracting the encapsulated Ethernet payload from the SCSI payload;
- forwarding the extracted Ethernet payload to a virtualized Ethernet network device;
- and
- interfacing the virtualized Ethernet network device with the data storage software on the client.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with Fibre Channel (FC) routing instructions executable by a processor, the instructions comprising:
- instructions to virtualize an Ethernet network device on a storage server;
- instructions to extract an encapsulated Ethernet payload from an FC Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) payload, the FC SCSI payload being received over FC from a client running data storage software;
- instructions to forward the extracted Ethernet payload to the virtualized Ethernet network device;
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- instructions to interface the virtualized Ethernet network device with the data storage software of the storage client.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.