International Business Machines Corporation

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Vijoy A Pandey

Dar-Ren Leu

Nilanjan Mukherjee

Ethan M Spiegel

Daljeet Singh

Ashok N Chippa

Vipin K Garg

Ioana M Costea

Robert E Zagst, Jr

A tool for assigning virtual port channels to one or more logical switch routers in a distributed system. The tool receives, by one or more computer processors, a request to assign a virtual port channel to a second logical switch router. The tool sends, by one or more computer processors, a request to negotiate a link-down on the channel on a first logical switch router to a universal fiber port on the first logical switch router for processing. The tool sends, by one or more computer processors, a request to create the channel on the second logical switch router to a second interface manager on the second logical switch router for processing. The tool sends, by one or more computer processors, a request to negotiate a link up on the channel on the second logical switch router to the universal fiber port on the first logical switch router for processing.

Virtual port support in a logical switch architecture

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

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