Patent ID: 9348530
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A storage array comprising: a plurality of physical ports for coupling the storage array to a switch; and a plurality of individual logical units of physical storage space organized into a plurality of groups of logical units of storage, each group having at least two of the individual logical units such that the at least two individual logical units are part of the group distinguished from being mapped to the group, each group being coupled to one or more physical ports of the plurality of physical ports on the storage array, each group being assigned a unique virtual port ID that uniquely identifies the group for each physical port on the array to which the group is coupled, with each group of the plurality of groups of logical units of storage that is coupled to two or more physical ports of the plurality of physical ports being assigned a unique virtual port ID for each of the two or more physical ports to which that same group is coupled such that multiple unique virtual port IDs are assigned to that same group, wherein a group of the plurality of groups of logical units of storage is assigned multiple virtual port IDs and two physical ports of the two or more physical ports, and wherein a first virtual port ID of the multiple port IDs corresponds to the first physical port of the two physical ports and a second virtual port ID of the multiple port IDs corresponds to the second physical port of the two physical ports.