International Business Machines Corporation

Dwayne G McConnell

Curtis Shannon Eide

Xiaohan Qin

Concurrent maintenance of an input/output (I/O) adapter backing a virtual network interface connection (VNIC) including receiving, by a hardware management console (HMC), a request to disconnect the I/O adapter from a computing system, wherein the computing system comprises a logical partition and virtual I/O server; instructing, by the HMC over a communications link, the virtual I/O server to deconfigure and remove the server VNIC driver; determining, by the HMC, that a replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system; and in response to determining that the replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system, instructing, by the HMC over the communications link, the virtual I/O server to add and configure a replacement server VNIC driver.

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Cedar Park, TX, United States of America

Dwayne G McConnell