International Business Machines Corporation
Fabric-based storage-server connection

Abstract:

By querying a set of fabrics to determine an initiator logged into a fabric in the set of fabrics, a set of accessible fabrics is discovered, an accessible fabric in the set of accessible fabrics accessible to the initiator, an initiator comprising a transceiver connecting a server to a switch, a fabric in the set of fabrics comprising a switch connecting a server to a storage device, the storage device comprising a storage volume. Using a fabric usage policy, a set of allowed fabrics within the set of accessible fabrics is determined. Using the set of allowed fabrics, a storage volume is mapped to a server, the mapping enabling the server to access the storage volume via a fabric in the set of allowed fabrics.