Resetting fibre channel devices for failover in high availability backup systems
US10229017B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 1, 2015 |
| Grant date | Mar 12, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 4, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1464
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments for systems and methods of resetting network devices for failover operation, by receiving an operating system panic function call, disabling error reporting for all device ports of a device to be reset to prevent primary interrupts to a disk dump operation, performing a function level reset of the all the device ports to be reset, and performing the reset operation on the device in a single thread context to prevent secondary interrupts to the disk dump process.
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