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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2009
Anis M. Abdul, Austin, TX (US);
Nikhil Hegde, Round Rock, TX (US);
Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Austin, TX (US);
Rashmi Narasimhan, Round Rock, TX (US);
Anis M. Abdul, Austin, TX (US);
Nikhil Hegde, Round Rock, TX (US);
Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Austin, TX (US);
Rashmi Narasimhan, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method, a tangible computer medium, and a data processing system are provided for waking a blade server from an operational state of reduced power. When server blade enters the state of reduced power, a service firmware configures a multi-port blade switch of the server blade to direct incoming packets to the service firmware. The service firmware then polls for receipt of a Wake-on-Lan magic packet. When the Wake-on-Lan magic packet is received by the service firmware, the service firmware reconfigures the multi-port blade switch to direct incoming packets to a network interface card of the server blade. The service firmware then initiates a reboot of the server blade.