A host may be coupled to a fabric network. Fabric devices attached to the fabric network may be visible to the host through one or more host adapter ports. The host system may include a device centric discovery interface configured to provide an interface to a fabric driver to obtain information about the devices in the fabric network. The device centric discovery interface may be configured to return device centric discovery information such that a multi-path fabric device is presented as a single device with transport information provided for each path to the multi-path device. A device centric configuration interface may provide an interface to the fabric driver for device centric configuration of the devices in the fabric for use by the host such that a requested fabric device is configured for use by the host on multiple paths in the fabric network.

 
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