Dell Products Inc.

Hendrich M Hernandez

Robert L Winter

Gaurav Chawla

Timothy Michael Lambert

Shawn Joel Dube

Jacob Cherian

Saikrishna M Kotha

Wade Andrew Butcher

Matthew Lee Domsch

Shyamkumar Thiyagarajan Iyer

Lee Eric Ballard

William Price Dawkins

Bruce Anthony Holmes

Kurtis John Bowman

Michael J Roberts

Geng Lin

Balaji R Mittapalli

Yogesh Varma

Eric Kuzmack

John Christopher Beckett

Elie Antoun Jreij

Sudhir Vittal Shetty

Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni

Michael A Brundridge

Lei Wang

Rabah S Hamdi

Andrew Butcher

Chandrasekhar Puthillathe

Jonathan Foster Lewis

Kevin Allen Hughes

Robert Talbott Stevens, Iv

Dinesh K Ragupathi

Jon F Lewis

An information handling system may include a processor, a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and configured for out-of-band management of the information handling system, and a smart network interface card communicatively coupled to the processor and the management controller, and configured to obtain a secret for authenticating the smart network interface card to the management controller, request an access token reference from the management controller, the request including the secret and an identifier of the smart network interface card in order to authenticate the smart network interface card to the management controller, in response to the request for the access token reference, receive the access token reference, and communicate a management task request to the management controller using the access token reference.

Systems and methods for smart network interface card-initiated server management

An information handling system may include a first host system, comprising a first processor and a first network interface, and a second host system, comprising a second processor and a second network interface. The first network interface may be configured to accelerate migration of a designated virtual resource from the first host system to the second host system.

Systems and methods for migration of virtual computing resources using smart network interface controller acceleration

An information handling system may include a processor, a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and configured for out-of-band management of the information handling system, and a smart network interface card communicatively coupled to the processor and the management controller and configured to receive telemetry information from telemetry sources of the information handling system and perform advanced processing of the telemetry information.

Systems and methods for enabling smart network interface card as an advanced telemetry appliance

A smart network interface card in an information handling system monitors a local host memory associated with a computer resource for an update to a memory page in the local host memory. After the update to the memory page, the smart network interface card copies the memory page to its memory. The smart network interface card sets a watchdog timer to detect a failure in an the information handling system that hosts the computer resource and if the failure is detected, then the smart network interface card migrates the computer resource from its to another information handling system.

Shadow live migration over a smart network interface card

A processor/endpoint communication coupling configuration system includes a plurality of processing subsystems coupled to a multi-endpoint adapter device by a plurality of communication couplings included on at least one hardware subsystem. A communication coupling configuration engine identifies each at least one hardware subsystem, determines at least one communication coupling configuration capability of the plurality of communication couplings, and determines at least one first multi-endpoint adapter device capability of the multi-endpoint adapter device. The communication coupling configuration engine then configures the plurality of communication couplings based on the at least one hardware subsystem, the at least one communication configuration capability, and the at least one first multi-endpoint adapter device capability in order to provide at least one communication resource between at least one of the plurality of processing subsystems and at least one endpoint on the first multi-endpoint adapter device.

Processor/endpoint communication coupling configuration system

A multi-endpoint adapter includes endpoints configured to couple to respective processing subsystems, multi-endpoint adapter ports configured to couple to an external switch via respective external switch ports, and an internal switch coupled to the endpoints and multi-endpoint adapter ports. The internal switch receives a data packet from a first application provided by a first processing subsystem through a first endpoint, and matches the data packet to a data flow associated with QoS parameter(s). The internal switch then identifies a data flow action that is associated with the data flow and that provides for the transmission of the data packet via a first multiple endpoint adapter port that is configured in a manner that satisfies the at least one QoS parameter, and performs the data flow action to transmit the data packet through the first multi-endpoint adapter port and a first external switch port to the external switch.

Multi-endpoint adapter/multi-processor packet routing system

An information handling system includes a memory and a first controller. The memory stores a mapping table. The first controller is configured to communicate with the memory. The first controller detects a presence of a second controller in response to a first node being connected to a network within the information handling system, generates a port number for the second controller, stores the port number for the second controller in the mapping table, receives an indication that an Internet Protocol address of the second controller has changed, and updates the mapping table with the changed Internet Protocol address of the second controller.

System and method for optimizing management controller access for multi-server management

An information handling system includes a top of rack having a port, and a server having a network interface card and a controller. The port of the top of the rack transmits a link aggregation control protocol (LACP) packet. The network interface card receives the LACP packet from the port of the top of rack, and forwards the LACP packet. The controller receives the LACP packet from the network interface card, and to determine whether to update or create a bond associated with the port and a destination virtual machine of the LACP packet. The LACP packet is transmitted from the bond to the network interface card, and in response to the LACP packet being received at the network interface card, the LACP packet is provided to the destination virtual machine.

Switch dependent teaming for high availability of virtual network functions

A network adapter, includes a first transceiver module with a transceiver that operates according to a first network protocol and a memory element that includes information that identifies the first network protocol, a second transceiver module with a transceiver that operates according to a second network protocol and a memory element that includes information that identifies the second network protocol, and a controller that reads the information from the first memory element, directs an information handling system to invoke a first network driver associated with the first network protocol based upon the information, reads the second information from the second memory element, and directs the information handling system to invoke a second network driver associated with the second network protocol based upon the second information.

System and method for providing dynamic personalities for network ports

An information handling system includes a plurality of processors that each includes a cache memory, and a receive side scaling (RSS) indirection table with a plurality of pointers that each points to one of the processors. One or more network interface cards interface with the plurality of processors to receive information from a network. A hypervisor executes on one or more of the processors to support execution of virtual machines and coordinates information received at the network interface cards based upon an association between the information and virtual processors of the virtual machines, the virtual processors having identifiers.

Network traffic control by association of network packets and processes

Systems and methods for systems and methods for bare-metal network topology discovery. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive network topology information from a server, wherein the server is configured to collect at least one portion of the network topology information from one or more network devices via a baseboard management controller (BMC) circuit while the server operates in low-power mode; and provide a graphical display representing the network topology information, the graphical display including a representation of the server, the one or more network devices, and one or more connections between the server and the one or more network devices.

Systems and methods for bare-metal network topology discovery

An Ethernet device includes receive buffers and transmit buffers of a port, and a processor. The buffers are each associated with a respective class of service. The processor operates to determine a current buffer utilization in a receive buffer, determine that the current buffer utilization is different than a buffer threshold for the receive buffer, determine a data rate limit for the class of service associated with the receive buffer based upon the difference between the current buffer utilization and the buffer threshold, and send a data rate limit frame to another device coupled to the port. The data rate limit frame includes the data rate limit for the class of service.

System and method for dynamic rate control in Ethernet fabrics

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a network interface communicatively coupled to the processor, a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to provide management of the information handling system via a communications channel physically isolated from the network interface, and a controller. The controller may be configured to filter for a packet indicative of a request to remotely reset the management controller and, in response to receiving the packet indicative of the request to remotely reset the management controller, perform a reset of the management controller.

Systems and methods for secure remote management controller reset

A gratuitous address resolution protocol frame is sent from an information handling system upon detection of VLAN status change the information handling system. A status flag included in the address resolution protocol frame provides a switch that receives the frame with the status change, such as the addition or removal of a VLAN at the information handling system.

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Hendrich M Hernandez