Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Clark Thomas Laughlin

Jeffrey R Hilland

Robert C Elliot

Toshimitsu Kani

Phillip Andrew Leech

Benjamin D Lytle

As a part of a networking system, a Smart Network Interface Card (NIC)/Data Processing Unit (DPU) translation agent can be implemented by a device within a Smart NIC/DPU. The Smart NIC/DPU translation agent translates operation requests associated with a vendor-neutral API method into a vendor-specific API method, e.g., to communicate with vendor-specific firmware. The agent comprises an orchestration unit for detecting an operation request from an external entity having vendor-neutral API; and translating the operation request based upon a fabric data model; a configuration service unit for generating management commands based on the modified operation request; and a proxy service unit for receiving and translating the configuration commands to communicate with vendor-specific firmware using the vendor-specific API method.

Smart NIC/DPU translation agent for vendor-specific communication

Responsive to a start-up of an instance of a cloud-based computing environment, metadata that is stored in a virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) is accessed. The metadata represents configuration parameters for the instance, and the configuration parameters include a security credential. The instance is configured based on the metadata. The configuration includes configuring an access control of the instance with the security credential.

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Clark Thomas Laughlin