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Protocol independent storage discovery and enablement

  • US 10,057,347 B2
  • Filed: 02/13/2015
  • Issued: 08/21/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for Ethernet protocol independent storage device discovery comprising:

  • emulating, with a manager node, a plurality of undiscovered cloud nodes within a cloud network by broadcasting a plurality of data frames according to respective different Ethernet protocols to each of the plurality of undiscovered cloud nodes, each of the plurality of undiscovered cloud nodes operable within the cloud network according to one Ethernet protocol upon being discovered by the management node;

    discovering one or more cloud nodes, with the manager node, by receiving a reply frame from one or more of the undiscovered cloud nodes;

    requesting, with the manager node, storage device specific information from the discovered one or more cloud nodes, wherein storage devices are communicatively connected to each respective one or more cloud nodes;

    logging, with the manager node, the storage device specific information within a local network device map; and

    sending, with the manager node, the network device map to a network manager, the network manager querying the storage device specific information to determine whether to enable storage devices associated with the storage device specific information within the cloud network.

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