Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for providing an infiniband SR-IOV vSwitch architecture for a high performance cloud computing environment
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Application No.: US15050901Application Date: 2016-02-23
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Publication No.: US09990221B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Evangelos Tasoulas , Bjørn Dag Johnsen , Ernst Gunnar Gran
- Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Agency: Tucker Ellis LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F15/173 ; H04L12/931 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F9/50
Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for implementing a Virtual Switch (vSwitch) architecture that supports transparent virtualization and live migration. In an embodiment, a vSwitch with prepopulated Local Identifiers (LIDs). Another embodiment provides for vSwitch with dynamic LID assignment. Another embodiment provides for vSwitch with prepopulated LIDS and dynamic LID assignment Moreover, embodiments of the present invention provide scalable dynamic network reconfiguration methods which enable live migrations of VMs in network environments.
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