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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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
Failover of a virtual function exposed by an SR-IOV adapter of a computing system, including: instantiating, by a hypervisor, a standby virtual function in the computing system; detecting a loss of communication between a logical partition and an active virtual function mapped to the logical partition; placing the active virtual function and the standby virtual function in an error state; remapping the logical partition to the standby virtual function; and placing the standby virtual function in an error recovery state.