CPC G06F 3/0632 (2013.01) [G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a storage system having a plurality of fabric modules, that a storage device is being connected to the plurality of fabric modules;
issuing, by a first one of the plurality of fabric modules, a first device identifier (ID) from a deterministic sequence of device IDs to the storage device being added;
determining, by the storage device being connected, to accept the first device ID based on the storage device not having a second device ID, in the deterministic sequence, that is higher than the first device ID; and
determining, by the first one of the plurality of fabric modules, to proceed with initializing the storage device based on the storage device having the first device ID issued by the first one of the plurality of fabric modules.
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