Technique for implementing virtual fabric membership assignments for devices in a storage area network

摘要

A technique is provided for facilitating fabric membership login for an N_Port of a storage area network. A communication from a network node is received. The communication may include a portion of criteria associated with the N_Port. Using at least a portion of the portion of criteria, a virtual fabric identifier corresponding to a virtual fabric which is associated with the N_Port may be automatically identified. Fabric configuration information, which includes the virtual fabric identifier, may be automatically provided to the network node. A fabric login request from the N_Port to login to the virtual fabric may then be received. According to a specific embodiment, the communication may be transmitted from a network node to an F_Port on a Fibre Channel switch. When the N_Port received the fabric configuration information from the F_Port, the generating, using at least a portion of the received fabric configuration information, a fabric login request message may be generated by the N_Port which includes a fabric login request for the N_Port to login to the virtual fabric corresponding to the virtual fabric identifier. In at least one implementation, the N_Port and/or F_Port may be configured or designed to support trunking functionality.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and a memory comprising instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving a first communication from a first network node, the first communication comprising a list of logical N_Ports associated with a first N_Port;identifying a first virtual fabric identifier corresponding to a first virtual fabric that is associated with the first N_Port based on the list of logical N_Ports; andproviding fabric configuration information to the first network node, the fabric configuration information comprising the first virtual fabric identifier.