Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Discovery controller-based nonvolatile memory express namespace resolution services
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Application No.: US17714154Application Date: 2022-04-06
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Publication No.: US12008380B2Publication Date: 2024-06-11
- Inventor: Claudio Desanti , David Black , Douglas L Farley
- Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Round Rock
- Assignee: DELL PRODUCT L.P.
- Current Assignee: DELL PRODUCT L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Round Rock
- Agency: NORTH WEBER & BAUGH LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/4401
- IPC: G06F9/4401 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Currently, there is no scalable methodologies defined to locate a namespace on an NVMe-oF fabric. Therefore, it is necessary to configure a host with the NVMe™ Qualified Name (NQN) and transport information of the storage subsystem where the boot namespace is located or discover and enumerate all namespaces available to the host on an NVMe-oF fabric. With the current protocols, a host may need to perform many operations to locate the proper namespace and boot from the NVMe-oF fabric, making booting in a SAN environment an extremely slow operation and computationally expensive process. Embodiments herein support discovery, via a discovery controller, to provide a namespace resolution service able to facilitate a host to efficiently resolve a given namespace identifier to the corresponding subsystem port(s) through which that namespace is accessible.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230325200A1 DISCOVERY CONTROLLER-BASED NONVOLATILE MEMORY EXPRESS NAMESPACE RESOLUTION SERVICES Public/Granted day:2023-10-12
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