International Business Machines Corporation

Jeffrey Yang

Yan Huang

Yue Yu

Hong Jun Tu

Jun Jie Nan

Yi Gong

Cheng Li Wang

A method for establishing redundant connections for a virtual machine, which comprises: obtaining a plurality of storage nodes storing a same virtual machine image of the virtual machine; determining at least two storage nodes from the plurality of storage nodes, so that connections between a compute node provisioning the virtual machine and each of the at least two storage nodes have minimum correlation; and establishing connections between the compute node and the at least two storage nodes respectively. The present invention further discloses the corresponding apparatus.

Establishing redundant connections for virtual machine

A method and apparatus of managing a network connection of a network node comprising a NIC of a first type and a NIC of a second type. The method comprises: creating an interface device in the network node and setting the interface device to exchange data with a bridge connected to the NIC of the first type in response to detection of a failure in the NIC of the first type; determining a secondary node; instructing the secondary node to create and set a corresponding interface device; constructing a data channel between the interface device and the corresponding interface device, such that the data channel is capable of conducting data transmission using a network formed by the NICs of the second type. The apparatus corresponds to the above method.

Managing network connection of a network node

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