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Virtual target port aggregation

  • US 10,348,519 B2
  • Filed: 11/20/2014
  • Issued: 07/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A fibre channel based switching system comprising:

  • a processor; and

    a machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the processor to;

    create a virtual port associated with a virtual port identifier;

    associate the virtual port with a plurality of target node ports of a storage array by associating the virtual port identifier with port identifiers of each of the plurality of target node ports;

    for a first frame of a fibre channel (FC) exchange received by the fibre channel based switching system and for the storage array, determine the plurality of target node ports of the storage array associated with the virtual port, wherein the FC exchange comprises a sequence of frames including the first frame;

    in response to the identification, select a target node port of the plurality of target node ports; and

    in response to the selection, transmit each frame of the sequence of frames corresponding to the fibre channel exchange to the selected target node port.

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