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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ping Chen, Austin, TX (US);
Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);
Yiwei Li, Austin, TX (US);
Raghavendra Malapati, Bangalore, IN;
Venu G. Potluri, Khammam, IN;
Patricia Y. Wang, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Migrating a logical partition with a native logical port including establishing in the target computing system a target VIOS that includes a virtual network interface controller (vNIC) server, the vNIC server of the target VIOS coupled for data communications to a first target virtual adapter; copying the logical partition including a vNIC client to the target computing system; starting the logical partition; establishing, by the vNIC client of the logical partition, data communications with the vNIC server of the target VIOS, including performing I/O data communications between the logical partition and the first target virtual adapter; establishing a second logical port in the logical partition on the target computing system, including coupling for I/O data communications the second logical port to a second target virtual adapter; and performing I/O data communications from the logical partition to the second target virtual adapter through the second logical port.