| US 7,464,204 B2 | ||
| Disk-array device having storage-device recognition and identification of a storage area network link environment | ||
| Itaru Isobe, Odawara (Japan); Katsuhiro Uchiumi, Fujisawa (Japan); Yuki Maeda, Odawara (Japan); and Naoki Futawatari, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 13, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/519,912. | ||
| Application 11/519912 is a continuation of application No. 10/883787, filed on Jul. 06, 2004, granted, now 7,120,709. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-140224 (JP), filed on May 10, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0027836 A1, Feb. 01, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 710—74 [710/8; 709/220] | 6 Claims |
| 1. A method of managing a storage system comprising a server device, a fibre channel switch device, a storage device comprising
a channel adapter and a logical storage area as a disk array unit, the server device comprising a host bus adapter which is
linked to the fibre channel switch device via a fibre channel, the channel adapter being linked to the fibre channel switch
device via another fibre channel, and the channel adapter being linked to the logical storage area, the method comprising
the steps of:
registering attribute information of the host bus adapter and attribute information of the fibre channel switch device into
a database in the fibre channel switch device;
retrieving said attribute information from the database by the storage device;
determining based upon said attribute information whether the host bus adapter and the fibre channel switch device are compliant
with GS-4 Protocol of fibre channel protocols thereby determining whether or not the host bus adapter and the fibre channel
switch device are adaptable to a fabric management interface defined by the GS-4 Protocol; and
displaying via an operation-information collection application information about whether the host bus adapter and the fibre
channel switch device are adaptable or inadaptable.
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