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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Antonio Abbondanzio, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Charles Burke, Durham, NC (US);
Gregory William Dake, Durham, NC (US);
William Gavin Holland, Cary, NC (US);
William Joseph Piazza, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Gregory Brian Pruett, Raleigh, NC (US);
David B. Rhoades, Apex, NC (US);
Antonio Abbondanzio, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Charles Burke, Durham, NC (US);
Gregory William Dake, Durham, NC (US);
William Gavin Holland, Cary, NC (US);
William Joseph Piazza, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Gregory Brian Pruett, Raleigh, NC (US);
David B. Rhoades, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for automatically switching remote shared devices in a dense server environment. A device driver in a server blade may be configured to receive a request to access a shared device from the server blade and issue a query to a service processor as to whether the requested shared device is being accessed. If the requested shared device is not being accessed by the requesting server blade, then the device driver may wait to receive a response from the service processor indicating that the requested shared device is available. Once the requested shared device is available, the service processor may connect the requested shared device with the requesting server blade. The request to access the requested shared device may then be transferred to the requested shared device by the device driver.