Migration of switch in a storage area network

Details Migration of switch in a storage area network Migration of switch in a storage area network

2009-05-15

2011-11-08

Shah, Chirag (Department: 2477)

Multiplex communications

Network configuration determination

Reexamination Certificate

active

08054763

ABSTRACT:
A method, system and computer program product for migrating at least one switch in a storage area network is disclosed. The migration is done by analysing the I/O traffic to identify patterns in the I/O traffic of the switch; forecasting future I/O workload of the switch based on one or more identified patterns in the I/O traffic, determining appropriate timing for migration based on the identified patterns and administrator inputs; processing the storage area network configuration data to identify the storage network physical and logical access paths to the or each selected switch to create a first connectivity map; generating a second connectivity map based on the first connectivity map and administrator inputs; and migrating the or each switch migration based on the second connectivity map and the appropriate timing. The migration may comprise routing the I/O traffic from the switch to be migrated to the alternate switches in the storage area network. The migration may further comprising transforming zones on the switch to be migrated and deploying the transformed zones to the new switch.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2007/0280134 (2007-12-01), Ramanan et al.
patent: 2009/0177878 (2009-07-01), Gao et al.
patent: 2009/0187606 (2009-07-01), Allweil et al.

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