Patent ID: 7711979
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing hosts and storage resources on a storage area network (SAN), comprising: associating at least one logical relationship among the storage resources to each of a plurality of virtual identifiers wherein each of the plurality of virtual identifiers comprises a virtual world wide name (VWWN); and assigning at least one of the plurality of virtual identifiers to an interface of each of the hosts wherein the hosts are configured to communicate with the storage resources using a SAN fabric, and wherein interface of each of the hosts comprises a host bus adapter (HBA) coupled to the SAN fabric and wherein the SAN fabric comprises a fiber channel (FC) fabric, and wherein at least one of the plurality of virtual identifiers is assigned to the interface of each of the hosts using N-port ID virtualization (NPIV).