Patent ID: 7844444

Claim:
A computerized method for troubleshooting a fibre channel device, wherein said fibre channel device is designed for use in a storage area network, said method comprising: providing a system which does not function as a storage server, the system having one or more ports for connecting to a storage area network; emulating one or more targets for each port of said system wherein the emulated targets' total capacity exceeds a real total storage capacity of said system; emulating one or more LUNs for each emulated target of said system, wherein attributes of emulated LUNs are user configurable at a LUN level, at a target level, at a port level, and at a system level; and troubleshooting performance of the fibre channel device deployed in an application development environment using said emulated targets and said emulated LUNs, said fibre channel device capable of addressing one or more disk drives.