Patent ID: 9288138
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. An information handling system node comprising: a plurality of input/output (I/O) ports, at least a portion of which facilitate communications with one or more client devices and are configurable to be part of one or more virtual link trunking (VLT) link aggregation groups (LAGs), each of the one or more VLT LAGs including the information handling system node and at least one of the one or more client devices; a plurality of inter-node-link (INL) ports, at least a portion of which facilitate communications with one or more of peer information handling system nodes in an n-node VLT system, which comprises the information handling system node and at least one of the one or more peer information handling system nodes; a data processing component that processes data traffic, and receives data from and sends data to at least one of the plurality of I/O ports and at least one of the plurality of INL ports; and a fabric-level logical-components table that stores information with respect to the n-node VLT system such that each of the one or more VLT LAGs that includes the information handling system node and at least one of the one or more peer information handling system node of the n-node VLT system is identified in the fabric-level logical-components table with a virtual link trunk (VLT) identifier that is common to the information handling system node and the at least one of the one or more peer information handling system node but that is unique to that VLT LAG and the fabric-level logical-components table is also stored on the at least one of the one or more peer information handling system node.