Patent ID: 11886940
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A storage apparatus, comprising a network interface card (NIC) and a plurality of controllers, wherein the network interface card is separately connected to each of the plurality of controllers, and the network interface card comprise a parser and at least one shared connector, wherein
the parser is configured to distribute a received first RDMA packet to a first shared connector in the at least one shared connector; and
the storage apparatus is configured to establish a QP connection to a peer network device via the first shared connector, and determine a first QP corresponding to a first controller based on the first RDMA packet, so as to implement communication with the first controller, wherein the first shared connector is separately connected to a plurality of controllers comprising the first controller, and one QP corresponding to each of the plurality of controllers is corresponding to the first shared connector.