Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Detecting single points of failure on a storage system
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Application No.: US16176752Application Date: 2018-10-31
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Publication No.: US11336509B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Erik P. Smith , Scott Rowlands , Vincent H. Westin , Kevin Martin , Arieh Don
- Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: Muirhead and Saturnelli, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; H04L41/0677 ; H04L41/0659 ; H04L41/22 ; H04L67/1097 ; H04L49/356 ; H04L49/354 ; H04L49/25

Abstract:
Single points of failure (SPoFs) may be determined for I/O connectivity on a storage network. I/O path information may be determined for a storage device, for example, as a result of a host system logging into the storage network, and may be updated in response to events on the storage network. From this determined I/O path information, one or more SPoFs between a storage device and an application layer may be determined if, for the I/O path information collectively, it is determined that there is only one of any of the path components between the storage device and the application layer. The I/O path information may be displayed in a manner that facilitates a user identifying that there is an SPoF on an I/O path between a storage device and an application layer of a host system. Based on the determination of an SPoF, an alert may be issued.
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