CPC G06F 12/10 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 41/02 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 61/10 (2013.01); G06F 3/0662 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); H04L 61/5038 (2022.05); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method, comprising:
assigning a virtual MAC address to a virtual server, the virtual MAC address to remain with the virtual server despite reassignment of a resource of a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster;
storing the virtual MAC address in storage memory associated with a plurality of the storage nodes so that the virtual MAC address is recoverable despite loss of one or more of the plurality of storage nodes, wherein one of the plurality of storage nodes includes differing types of solid state memory; and
mapping the virtual MAC address to multiple physical MAC addresses corresponding to multiple ones of the plurality of storage nodes, in a one-to-many mapping.
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