20100247094 | DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING OF FIBRE CHANNEL TRAFFIC - Systems and methods herein provide for load balancing Fibre Channel traffic. In this regard, a Fibre Channel load balancer may be operable to monitor Fibre Channel paths coupled to a host bus adapter and determine the speeds of the Fibre Channel ports within the Fibre Channel paths. The Fiber Channel load balancer may also be operable to determine certain characteristics of the Fibre Channel traffic being passed over the Fibre Channel paths. For example, a load balancer may determine Fibre Channel traffic sizes of pending requests and, based in part on the traffic sizes and operable normalized speeds of the Fibre Channel ports, adaptively route the pending original traffic across the Fibre Channel ports. | 09-30-2010 |