PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT STORAGE DISCOVERY AND ENABLEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20180248952A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-30

    申请号:US15969160

    申请日:2018-05-02

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08 H04L12/46 H04L29/12

    摘要: A manager node provides discovery, translation, and mapping services for supported Ethernet protocol layers. The manager node discovers other nodes within the cloud environment and issues commands to each of the discovered nodes to obtain storage device specific information associated to storage devices communicatively connected to the discovered nodes. The storage device information obtained may include such things as device function (initiator or target), device model number, device capacity, and available storage (free), etc. When the manager node has gathered the storage device specific information it may create a list of all feasible storage devices that could be utilized within the cloud environment. The manager node may determine which of the discovered storage devices will be enabled. Subsequently, the manager node map may serve as an address translator and/or a gateway between protocols.

    Port group configuration for interconnected communication devices

    公开(公告)号:US09912532B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-06

    申请号:US14613604

    申请日:2015-02-04

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24 H04L12/26

    CPC分类号: H04L41/0803 H04L43/12

    摘要: Methods, computer systems, and computer program products for configuring ports of interconnected communications equipment include, defining configuration parameters for at least one port of a plurality of ports of a plurality of interconnected communications devices; defining a group of the at least one port of the plurality of ports of the plurality of interconnected communications devices into a configuration group; and creating an explicit link mirroring the defined configuration parameters of the at least one port of the plurality of ports of the plurality of interconnected communications devices to the defined configuration group of at least one port of the plurality of ports of the plurality of interconnected communications devices, such that changes made to the defined configuration parameters are replicated and synced to the defined configuration group.