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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Eric Kuzmack, Georgetown, TX (US);
Pawan Kumar Singal, Milpitas, CA (US);
Balaji Rajagopalan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ning Zhuang, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph LaSalle White, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhir Vittal Shetty, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Babu Krishna Chandrasekhar, Round Rock, TX (US);
Zoheb Khan, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An expander I/O module discovery/management system includes a secondary system chassis housing an expander I/O module coupled to a server device. The server device identifies the secondary system chassis and an expander I/O module port utilized by that server device, and then generates and transmits an expander I/O module reporting communication identifying the secondary system chassis and the expander I/O module port. A primary system chassis houses a switching I/O module coupled to the expander I/O module. The switching I/O module receives the expander I/O module reporting communication and determines that the secondary system chassis identified in the expander I/O module reporting communication is different than the primary system chassis. In response, the switching I/O module assigns a virtual slot to the expander I/O module, and assigns a virtual port associated with the virtual slot to the expander I/O module port identified in the expander I/O module reporting communication.