EP 1240575 A2 20020918 - ENCAPSULATION PROTOCOL FOR LINKING STORAGE AREA NETWORKS OVER A PACKET-BASED NETWORK
Title (en)
ENCAPSULATION PROTOCOL FOR LINKING STORAGE AREA NETWORKS OVER A PACKET-BASED NETWORK
Title (de)
VERKAPSELUNGSPROTOKOLL, UM SPEICHERBEREICHNETZWERKE ÜBER EIN AUF PAKET-BASIERTES NETZWERK ZU VERBINDEN
Title (fr)
PROTOCOLE D'ENCAPSULAGE DESTINE A LIER DES RESEAUX A ZONES DE STOCKAGE VIA UN RESEAU PAR PAQUET
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 0042087 W 20001113
- US 16519499 P 19991112
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO0144891A2] A method and system are disclosed for encapsulating SCSI protocol for data transmission between two or more nodes across a packet-based network. The method of the present invention includes the steps of, at each node in the network, identifying all other available nodes on the network, and the remote devices attached to those nodes; representing one or more of the attached remote devices such that they are made available to the node's local hosts; encapsulating the I/O phases between one or more local hosts and one or more of the remote devices; and repeating the encapsulating step for subsequent I/Os between one or more hosts and one or more devices. The step of encapsulating I/O phases between a local host and a remote device can further comprise encapsulating task management functions, error recovery functions and normal I/O processing functions. Each node can be a Fibre Channel-to-SCSI router.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); G06F 11/202 (2013.01); H04L 69/329 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 0144891A2
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 0144891 A2 20010621; WO 0144891 A3 20020124; AU 4707001 A 20010625; CA 2391353 A1 20010621; CN 1409903 A 20030409; EP 1240575 A2 20020918; JP 2003517765 A 20030527
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 0042087 W 20001113; AU 4707001 A 20001113; CA 2391353 A 20001113; CN 00817156 A 20001113; EP 00992795 A 20001113; JP 2001545919 A 20001113