International Business Machines Corporation

Martin J Tross

Theodore Brian Vojnovich

Scott Neil Dunham

Andrew Boyce McNeill, Jr

Joseph Edward Bolan

Gregory William Dake

Ben-Ami Yassour

Methods, apparatus, and products for managing virtual addresses of blade servers in a data center are disclosed that include storing by a blade server management module ('BSMM'), in non-volatile memory of a blade server, a parameter block, the parameter block including one or more virtual addresses for communications adapters of the blade server and one or more action identifiers, each action identifier representing a type of address modification; detecting, by a basic input-output system ('BIOS') module of the blade server upon powering on the blade server, the parameter block; and modifying, by the BIOS module of the blade server in dependence upon the one or more action identifiers of the parameter block, an address of at least one communications adapter of the blade server.

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Haifa, Israel

Martin J Tross