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Maintaining a fabric name across a distributed switch

US9426546B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

GlobalFoundries Inc. · KY

Inventors

Joachim Fenkes · Tübingen, DE
Roger G. Hathorn · Tucson, US
Sriharsha Jayanarayana · Bengaluru, IN
Henry J. May · Mantorville, US
Daniel Sentler · Passau, DE
Sudheer R. Yelanduru · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 21, 2013
Grant date	Aug 23, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 6, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04Q2011/0088
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques are provided for distributing a fabric name to switching elements of a distributed switch configured to forward Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames. A distributed switch membership distributed (DMFD) message is transmitted that includes names of all switching elements in the distributed switch, and further includes a fabric descriptor that contains the fabric name.

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