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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2005
Shreyas Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Subramaniam Vinod, San Jose, CA (US);
Ramalingam K. Anand, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Ashok Krishnamurthi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shreyas Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Subramaniam Vinod, San Jose, CA (US);
Ramalingam K. Anand, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Ashok Krishnamurthi, Saratoga, CA (US);
XSIGO Systems, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for virtualizing resources including peripheral components and peripheral interfaces. Peripheral component such as hardware accelerators and peripheral interfaces such as port adapters are offloaded from individual servers onto a resource virtualization switch. Multiple servers are connected to the resource virtualization switch over an I/O bus fabric such as PCI Express or PCI-AS. The resource virtualization switch allows efficient access, sharing, management, and allocation of resources.