Patent ID: 8793352

Claim:
A method for storage area network configuration, comprising: defining a set of redundant fabrics wherein a fabric is a network between devices of a storage area network, each device having a world wide node name (WWNN); a first fabric communicating with other fabrics in a set of redundant fabrics to send configuration information; each redundant fabric examining the configuration information of the first fabric for devices to which the redundant fabric is also connected; and resolving ports for devices to which the first fabric and the redundant fabric are connected to provide ports on the redundant fabric equivalent to the ports on the first fabric, the resolving being performed by: numerically ordering the WWNNs of the devices, assigning a bitset value to each port of each of the devices, after the numerical ordering, such that the same bitset value is assigned to equivalent ports on different fabrics, and matching the bitset values of the equivalent ports.