Patent ID: 11907530
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing Quality of Service (QoS) in an non-volatile memory express (NVMe™) environment, the method comprising:
at a discovery controller (DC) in a network, which comprises entities comprising one or more hosts and one or more subsystems, receiving one or more zone configurations representing a set of access control rules that determine which of the one or more hosts are authorized to connect to which of the one or more subsystems and indicates one or more QoS parameters to use when forming these connections; and
responsive to an entity in the network issuing a request to the DC to discover those entities that the entity is authorized to establish a connection with according to a zone configuration from the one or more zone configurations, providing to the entity:
a list of one or more entities according to the zone configuration; and
for at least one of the entities on the list, an indication of a QoS parameter to use for data traffic when corresponding with the at least one of the entities.