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Supporting flexible deployment and migration of virtual servers via unique function identifiers

US10102021B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Gerhard Banzhaf · Nufringen, DE
David F. Craddock · New Paltz, US
James M. Jenks · Vestal, US
Angel Nunez Mencias · Stuttgart, DE
Justin D. Miller · Endicott, US
Eric A. Weinmann · Endicott, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 8, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/10
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A management system and method that generally allocates a virtual function to a virtual function definition of a virtual server, where the virtual function definition of the virtual server is previously assigned with a unique function identifier, and assigns the unique function identifier to the virtual function in response to the allocating of the virtual function, where the unique function identifier causes a discovery of the virtual function by the virtual server.

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