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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2008
Frances C. Garofalo, Woodstock, NY (US);
Jeffrey D. Haggar, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Bruce H. Ratcliff, Red Hook, NY (US);
Stephen R. Valley, Valatie, NY (US);
Frances C. Garofalo, Woodstock, NY (US);
Jeffrey D. Haggar, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Bruce H. Ratcliff, Red Hook, NY (US);
Stephen R. Valley, Valatie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Creating a unique identification for each stack in partitions of a host data computer such that a plurality of partitions may share a single adapter card during an Input/Output operation wherein the adapter card is exchanging data between the host and a Local Area Network. The adapter card includes a unique identifier pool for maintaining values of unique identifiers which are available for identifying the stacks. A deleted unique identifier for a stack may be reused by newly created stacks and may be reassigned to a recreated stack, if still available, when the stack had previously been deleted by the operating system, but is then recreated.