Patent ID: 8732701

Claim:
A method for configuring a data storage server including at least two logically addressable units, wherein the data storage server is configured to be communicatively coupled to at least one initiator device via a network, comprising: receiving a login negotiation via a network from an initiator device to access a target of the data storage server, wherein the target of the data storage server has logically addressable units including protected data and logically addressable units including unprotected data; creating at least one first virtual device on the data storage server, the at least first virtual device including at least one logically addressable unit including protected data of the target of the data storage server; creating at least one second virtual device on the data storage server, the at least one second virtual device including only logically addressable units of the target of the data storage server without protected data; disabling support of writes with immediate data from the initiator device to each of the at least one first virtual device on the data storage server, wherein immediate data is data configured to be transferred during a command phase without waiting for a data transfer phase; and configuring one or more of the at least one second virtual device on the data storage server to support writes with immediate data from the initiator device.