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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Vani D. Ramagiri, Austin, TX (US);

Douglas Griffith, Burnet, TX (US);

Anil Kalavakolanu, Austin, TX (US);

James A. Pafumi, Leander, TX (US);

Evan Allen Zoss, Austin, TX (US);

Peter J. Heyrman, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.02); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract

For a first virtual machine (VM) executing on a physical machine and virtualizing a set of redundant physical adapters installed in the physical machine, a second VM is instantiated on the physical machine. A first physical adapter is reassigned from the first VM to the second VM, the first physical adapter comprising one of the set of redundant physical adapters, the reassigning performed without rebooting a first operating system executing in the first VM. A second rule configuration of the second VM is updated to match a first rule configuration of the first VM, forming an updated second VM. A hypervisor managing the physical machine is caused to redirect traffic for a first virtual adapter associated with the reassigned first physical adapter to the updated second VM.


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