Remote management of hardware hosts in cloud infrastructure

NR Potlapally, JA Harland, D Del Miller… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
In a cloud environment, each host computer can have its own security service processor with
an independent network interface for communicating with a remote server over a network …

Scheduling upgrades in distributed computing systems

J Olderdissen, M Sudheendra, N Bhatia… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Examples of systems described herein may include virtualized computing environments
having one or more upgrade management agents. An upgrade management agent may …

Hot-plugging of virtual functions in a virtualized environment

A Kaplan, M Kolesnik - US Patent 10,423,437, 2019 - Google Patents
Implementations of the disclosure provide for hot-plugging of virtual functions in a virtualized
environment. In one implementation, a computer system comprising a memory to store …

Implementing concurrent device driver maintenance and recovery for an SRIOV adapter in a virtualized system

CS Graham, JR Oberly III, TJ Schimke - US Patent 9,317,317, 2016 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing concurrent
adapter driver maintenance and recovery for a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization …

Method and system for submission queue acceleration

MW Shapiro, T Mollov - US Patent 8,595,385, 2013 - Google Patents
In general, the invention relates to a method for writing data to server Submission queues in
a storage controller. The method includes receiving an I/O request, where the I/O request …

Implementing enhanced error handling of a shared adapter in a virtualized system

JP Arroyo, CS Graham, JR Oberly III… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced
error handling for a hardware I/O adapter, such as a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization …

Dynamic sharing of unused bandwidth capacity of virtualized input/output adapters

NR Challa, AT Stallman - US Patent 9,600,339, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method utilizes priority-based bandwidth allocation to reallocate unused
bandwidth capacity of a virtualized IO resource Such as a self-virtualizing IO resource to one …

Implementing concurrent adapter firmware update for an SRIOV adapter in a virtualized system

JP Arroyo, JA Donnelly, CS Graham… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, system and computer program product are pro vided for
implementing concurrent adapter firmware update of a Single Root Input/Output …

Relationship-based dynamic firmware management system

BR Thodati, SM Kotha - US Patent 9,116,775, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The present disclosure relates generally to information handling systems,
and more particularly to dynamically man aging firmware on information handling systems …

Live partition mobility with I/O migration

JP Arroyo, CS Graham, P Kommineni… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Live partition mobility in a computing environment that includes a source system and a target
system may be carried out by: pausing a logical partition on the source system, wherein the …