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High availability and I/O aggregation for server environments

US8677023B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

Vikram Venkataraghavan · Saratoga, US
Ming Wong · San Jose, US
Vipul Jain · Irvine, US
CHENG-WEN TANG · Taipei, TW
Shreyas Shah · San Jose, US
Jonathan Davar · Los Altos Hills, US
Mike Dvorkin · Beverly Hills, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 3, 2005
Grant date	Mar 18, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 23, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/1097
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus are provided for virtualizing port adapter resources such as network interface cards (NICs) used to connect servers to packet based networks. Resources are offloaded from individual servers onto a resource virtualization switch. Servers connected to the resource virtualization switch using an I/O bus connection share access to NICs. Redundancy can be provided using multipathing mechanisms implemented at individual servers or high availability mechanisms implemented at the resource virtualization switch. Switchover can occur between ports on the same port adapter, between ports on separate adapters, or between ports on separate resource virtualization switches.

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