SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR N PORT ID VIRTUALIZATION (NPIV) LOGIN LIMIT INTIMATION TO CONVERGED NETWORK ADAPTOR (CNA) IN NPIV PROXY GATEWAY (NPG) MODE

摘要

Aspects of the present invention include an NPG system that can stop the CNA from requesting a login if the system has reached the ACL login limit. In embodiments of the present invention, the number of available logins can be dynamically calculated and sent to the CNA.

主权项

1. An information handling system in a Node Port Identifier Virtualization Proxy Gateway (NPG) environment, comprising:
a converged network adapter, configurable to receive information pertaining to a number of available logins in the NPG environment; an input output aggregator (IOA/NPG) switch coupled to the converged network adapter, configurable to determine and to communicate the number of available logins to the converged network adaptor. a fibre channel switch, coupled to the input output aggregator (IOA/NPG), to get the FC address for the Fibre channel traffic