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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Anuj Chandra, Bengaluru, IN;
Imran Imtiaz, Manchester, GB;
Graham Woodward, Manchester, GB;
Miles Mulholland, Eastleigh, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: causing a standby node having standby ports to be activated in response to detecting that ports of one or more host nodes are saturated. A list of preferred communication paths is updated to include communication paths that extend through the standby ports, and the updated list of preferred communication paths is sent to a host. Input/output (I/O) requests are further received from the host along the communication paths that extend through the standby ports. However, in response to detecting that the saturated ports have been cleared, the standby node is deactivated, and I/O requests are received from the host along communication paths extending through the cleared ports of the host nodes.