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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Thomas Ford, Prosper, TX (US);
Khoa D. Nguyen, Arlington, TX (US);
Richard D. Powers, Highland Village, TX (US);
Thomas Ford, Prosper, TX (US);
Khoa D. Nguyen, Arlington, TX (US);
Richard D. Powers, Highland Village, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for allocating computer hardware resources of a hard partition of a computer server system to one or more soft partitions. In response to a partitioning request, a nucleus firmware instance of a hard partition may be configured to launch a separate firmware instance corresponding to each requested soft partition, and to allocate partitionable hardware resources of the hard partition to the soft partitions by allocating the hardware resources to each separate firmware instance.