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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2011
Sharad Mehrotra, Saratoga, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Dean Lovett, Portland, OR (US);
Cosmos Nicolaou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mangesh Shingane, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuri Finkelstein, San Carlos, CA (US);
Curtis M. Collins, San Jose, CA (US);
Geoffrey H. Hanson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sharad Mehrotra, Saratoga, CA (US);
Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Dean Lovett, Portland, OR (US);
Cosmos Nicolaou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mangesh Shingane, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuri Finkelstein, San Carlos, CA (US);
Curtis M. Collins, San Jose, CA (US);
Geoffrey H. Hanson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Multi-chassis fabric-backplane enterprise servers include a plurality of chassis managed collectively to form one or more provisioned servers. A central client coordinates gathering of provisioning and management information from the chassis, and arranges for distribution of control information to the chassis. One of the chassis may perform as a host or proxy with respect to information and control communication between the client and the chassis. Server provisioning and management information and commands move throughout the chassis via an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol. Alternatively, the client may establish individual communication with a subset of the chassis, and directly communicate with chassis in the subset. Server provisioning and management information includes events generated when module status changes, such as when a module is inserted and becomes available, and when a module fails and is no longer available. Each chassis includes a switch fabric enabling communication between chassis modules.