SCSII / O referral communication method and system between an initiator and a storage cluster using

摘要

The present invention is a system (1100) for providing multi-pathing via SCSI I/O referrals, comprising an initiator (1102) including at least two ports. The system also comprises at least two targets (1108; 1110), each target including at least two ports, each target of the at least two targets being communicatively coupled to the initiator (1102) via at least two storage area networks. The at least two storage area networks include a Fibre channel storage area network (1104) and an iSCSI storage area network (1106), the Fibre channel storage area network and the iSCSI storage area network being implemented at different media transport layer protocols. The initiator is configured to access a portion of data stored in one or more of a plurality of data segments (1112; 1114) via one or more of said at least two ports of said initiator and said one or more ports of each target of the at least two targets across the Fibre channel storage area network and the iSCSI storage area network.