Patent ID: 7260737
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for transport-level failover of a first device to a second device in a Fibre Channel (FC) network, comprising: configuring the second device with a data structure having an entry containing a port name and a node name of the first device, wherein the second device includes at least a first port and a second port, and where the first port on the second device receives requests directed to the second device; detecting, by the second device, a failure in the first device; initializing, on the second device, the second port connected to the FC network; configuring the second port with the port name and the node name of the first device, using the entry in the data structure listing the port name and the node name of the first device; asserting ownership, by the second device, of a set of disks owned by the first device in response to configuring the port name and the node name of the first device; and servicing, by the second device, data access requests directed to both the first and second device.