Patent ID: 9686210
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: establishing at a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Data-Plane Forwarder (FDF), an out-of-band connection with a controller in communication with a plurality of FDFs in an FCoE fabric; assigning at least one Domain identifier to represent said plurality of FDFs, wherein Fibre Channel addresses are allocated using said at least one Domain identifier; processing at the FDF, control information received from the controller; and forwarding FCoE frames based on said control information; wherein the FDF communicates in-band with said plurality of FDFs in the FCoE fabric and communicates with the controller through said out-of-band connection; and wherein the FDF is in communication with a network device hosting a virtual machine moved from another network device in communication with one of said plurality of FDFs and wherein the virtual machine is assigned the same Fibre Channel address it was assigned before moving.