Patent ID: 9531765
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving a connection request at a server over a fibre channel network from a client using SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), wherein a set of virtual connection engines are generated and executed by the server, the set of virtual connection engines to manage resources of a locality domain and to execute virtual connections to service communication requests via SCSI over the fiber channel network, the connection request including a catalog of available transport paths between the client and the server over the fibre channel network, the transport paths established based on fibre channel protocol; assigning at least one virtual connection engine from the set of virtual connection engines to each locality domain in the set of locality domains; generating a virtual connection to service the connection request by the server, the virtual connection using one of the available transport paths in the catalog; determining a load of each one of the set of virtual connection engines executed by the server; and assigning the virtual connection to a virtual connection engine selected from the set of virtual connection engines based on a criteria of a minimum load amongst the set of virtual connection engines.