DEPLOYING AN INTERNET STORAGE NAME SERVICE (iSNS) SERVER ON A NETWORK DEVICE
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsKrishna Puttagunta, Rupin T. Mohan, Vivek Agarwal
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to deployment of an Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) server on a network device. In an example, a network device may determine that the network device has a highest IP address among network devices in an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) network. In response to the determination, network device may deploy a primary Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) server, and provide an in-band network access between the primary iSNS server and an iSCSI device on the iSCSI network.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by a network device, that the network device has a highest IP address among network devices in an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) network;
- in response to the determination, deploying, on the network device, a primary Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) server;
- and
- providing, by the network device, an in-band network access between the primary iSNS server and an iSCSI device on the iSCSI network.
A network switching device, comprising:
- a determination engine to determine that the network switching device has a highest value of a counter among network devices in an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) network;
- a deployer engine to, in response to the determination, deploy on the network switching device a primary Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) server;
- and
- an access engine to provide an in-band network access between the primary iSNS server and an iSCSI device on the iSCSI network, wherein the in-band network access is useable by the iSCSI device to create discovery domains.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions, the instructions executable by a processor of a given network switch to:
- determine from respective heartbeat messages received from other network switches in an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) network that the given network switch has a highest IP address among the network switches;
- in response to the determination, deploy, on the given network switch, an Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) server;
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- provide, by the given network switch, an in-band network access between the iSNS server and at least one of an iSCSI initiator and an iSCSI target.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.