Patent ID: 9282004
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing communications in a storage network, the method comprising: monitoring, by a storage management computing device, data corresponding to the amount of traffic on the storage network that is directed to a first I/O port of at least one of a plurality of network devices, wherein the first I/O port is configured to communicate using a first communication protocol; determining, by the storage management computing device, when to reconfigure the first I/O port to communicate in a second protocol based on the monitored traffic data; and reconfiguring, by the storage management computing device, the first I/O port to communicate using the second communication protocol based on the determination, wherein the first communication protocol is a Fibre Channel protocol and the second communication protocol is at least one of a Ethernet protocol or a Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol.