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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2007
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Mallesh Lepakshaiah, Balgalore, IN;
Elizabeth J. Murray, Austin, TX (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Mallesh Lepakshaiah, Balgalore, IN;
Elizabeth J. Murray, Austin, TX (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A host enables any adapter of multiple adapters of the host to concurrently support any VIPA of the multiple VIPAs assigned to the host. Responsive to a failure of at least one particular adapter from among the multiple adapters, the host triggers the remaining, functioning adapters to broadcast a separate hardware address update for each VIPA over the network, such that for a failover in the host supporting the multiple VIPAs the host directs at least one other host accessible via the network to address any new packets for the multiple VIPAs to one of the separate hardware addresses of one of the remaining adapters.