Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Deepak Kothari

Mani Kancherla

David B Cheung

Gary Hemminger

Techniques for providing core-based virtualization based upon cores provided by one or more processors of a system. A device such as a network device comprising multiple processor cores provides for core-based virtualization. According to one embodiment, a network device is provided comprising a first subsystem for processing packets received by the network device. The first subsystem may comprise a set of one or more processors, the one or more processors providing a plurality of cores. Each core in the plurality of cores may have associated memory resources.

Core-trunking across cores on physically separated processors allocated to a virtual machine based on configuration information including context information for virtual machines

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Deepak Kothari