Patent ID: 8006011

Claim:
A data storage bridge system, comprising: an InfiniBand port to connect the data storage system to a computerized system; a fibre channel port to connect the data storage system to one or more fibre channel storage devices; and a controller to: receive an InfiniBand boot request from a computerized system via the InfiniBand Port, the InfiniBand boot request comprising an initiator including a global user identifier (GUID) to a target device identified by a Fibre Channel world wide port name (WWPN); look up at least one fibre channel target and logical unit number (LUN) corresponding to the initiator from among a plurality of LUNs; and map the InfiniBand boot request to the at least one looked up fibre channel LUN, such that data is communicated between the at least one fibre channel LUN and the controller and between the controller and the computerized system such that the computerized system is to boot from the at least one fibre channel LUN.