Trunking for fabric ports in fibre channel switches and attached devices

• Main Authors: JAIN PRAVEEN, GUPTA SHASHANK, GHOSH KALYAN K, DESAI TUSHAR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.05.2006
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

N_Ports and F_Ports are provided with logic allowing designation of multiple virtual interfaces on a single host bus adaptor or other Fibre Channel interface, one virtual interface for each VSAN operating on the node interface. Node ports with this additional functionality are referred to as trunkin...