An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes establishing
software defined network (SDN) awareness for a data replication application; establishing …

Primary Examiner—Nimesh G Patel (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Polsinelli PC (57)
ABSTRACT A method is described and in one embodiment includes monitoring by an …

Methods are provided for creating virtual links between Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
nodes. FIP Discovery Advertisement frames are received from multiple FCoE device …

(57) ABSTRACT A computer system according to the present invention includes a managing
unit which outputs a plurality of virtual networks managed by a plurality of controllers in a …

A method and apparatus are provided in which a source and target perform bidirectional
forwarding of traffic while a migration guest is being transferred from the source to the target …

An example method for facilitating software defined networking for storage area networks is
provided and includes dividing a control plane of a storage area network (SAN) into a …

CHANNEL OVERETHERNET DEVICES 8,060,587 B2 11/2011 Ahmad et al. USINGA FIBRE
CHANNEL OVER 8, 108,454 B2 1/2012 Snively et al. ETHERNET INTERCONNECTION 8 …

Abstract Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for interconnection of one or more
Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) devices. The system preferably comprises a virtualized …

Methods are provided for forwarding Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames over a
TRILL network by a FCoE device interconnection apparatus (FIA). A FCoE frame is received …

(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Polsinelli PC (57) ABSTRACT Embodiments include receiving
an indication of a data storage module to be associated with a tenant of a distributed storage …