Patent ID: 11909634
Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An Internet Small Computer System Interface (iscsi) multi-path management method, applied to a client, wherein the client stores a routing table that is updated and maintained in real time according to a current network topology, and the routing table records legitimate paths that are between a storage end and the client and conform to a black/white list rule; the method includes:
searching for each iscsi target that conforms to the black/white list rule at the storage end;
establishing an iscsi session with the iscsi target that conforms to the black/white list rule through a legitimate path, and executing a mount volume operation;
regularly rechecking the established iscsi session according to an updated black/white list rule; and
regularly updating and acquiring the iscsi target at the storage end, so as to establish the iscsi session with the newly acquired iscsi target that conforms to the updated black/white list rule.