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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Manu Anand, Hyderabad, IN;
Jesse P. Arroyo, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);
Prathima Kommineni, Hyderabad, IN;
Timothy J. Schimke, Stewartville, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computing environment includes a computing system, where the computing system includes a plurality of logical partitions, a hypervisor supporting the plurality of logical partitions, a plurality of SR-IOV adapters, where at least one of the logical partitions is mapped to a virtual function on a first SR-IOV adapter of the plurality of adapters, and where migrating an SR-IOV adapter configuration in the computing environment includes: cloning, on a second SR-IOV adapter, a configuration of the first SR-IOV adapter; placing the second SR-IOV adapter and the virtual function in an error state; remapping the virtual function from the first SR-IOV adapter to the second SR-IOV adapter; and placing the second SR-IOV adapter and the virtual function in an error recovery state.