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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2007
Gregory W. Dake, Durham, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapell Hill, NC (US);
Andrew B. Mcneill, Jr., Cary, NC (US);
Martin J. Tross, Haifa, IL;
Theodore B. Vojnovich, Cary, NC (US);
Ben-ami Yassour, Haifa, IL;
Gregory W. Dake, Durham, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapell Hill, NC (US);
Andrew B. McNeill, Jr., Cary, NC (US);
Martin J. Tross, Haifa, IL;
Theodore B. Vojnovich, Cary, NC (US);
Ben-Ami Yassour, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Failover of blade servers in a data center including powering off a failing blade server by a system management server through a blade server management module ('BSMM') managing the failing blade server, the failing blade server characterized by a machine type, one or more network addresses, and one or more storage addresses, the addresses being virtual addresses; identifying, by the system management server from a pool of standby blade servers, a replacement blade server, the replacement blade server managed by a BSMM; assigning, by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server, the one or more network addresses and the one or more storage addresses of the failing blade server to the replacement blade server, including enabling in the replacement blade server the assigned addresses; and powering on the replacement blade server by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server.