Patent ID: 9106588
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling enhanced transmission selection (ETS) to reserve bandwidth for a selected priority group, the method comprising: utilizing enhanced transmission selection (ETS) through a reservation system in communication with a server including a computer processor in a Fibre Channel over Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (FCoCEE) network; synchronizing a clock of the reservation system to a Network Time Protocol; maintaining by the reservation system a table of flow names, flow routes as a linked list of host names and switch names, requested bandwidths, granted bandwidths, Network Time Protocol start times and requestor priorities at the reservation system for scheduling bandwidth for a priority group based upon a projected workload duration; reserving bandwidth for the priority group by scheduling bandwidth for the priority group based upon the projected workload; and tagging the priority group at the server for which bandwidth is to be reserved with a virtual ID, and the virtual ID is recognized by ETS, which schedules known traffic delivery and notifies other servers in the FCoCEE network that bandwidth for the priority group having the virtual ID is reserved.