Patent ID: 9461929
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing a distributed Fibre Channel fabric, the method comprising: receiving a frame at a Fibre Channel (FC) interface of a switch unit; determining, by operation of a processor of the switch unit, whether the received frame is part of a multi-frame sequence; responsive to determining the received frame is not part of a multi-frame sequence, storing the received frame in a first frame buffer pool, wherein the first frame buffer pool comprises a first plurality of memory blocks sized with a maximum size of an individual FC frame; and responsive to determining the received frame is part of a multi-frame, storing the received frame in a second frame buffer pool, wherein the second frame buffer pool comprises a second plurality of memory blocks sized based on hardware zoning capabilities of the switch unit, and wherein storing the received frame in the second frame buffer pool comprises: