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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2011
Shaival J. Chokshi, Round Rock, TX (US);
Xiaohan Qin, Austin, TX (US);
Rakesh Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
Patrick T. Vo, Houston, TX (US);
Shaival J. Chokshi, Round Rock, TX (US);
Xiaohan Qin, Austin, TX (US);
Rakesh Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
Patrick T. Vo, Houston, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are techniques for configuring a primary shared Ethernet adapter (SEA) and a backup SEA into a failover (F/O) protocol; providing a user interface (UI) for enabling a user to request a SEA load sharing protocol; in response to a user request for a SEA load sharing protocol, verifying that criteria for load sharing are satisfied; setting, by the UI a load sharing mode, comprising: requesting, by the backup SEA to the primary SEA, implementation of the SEA load sharing protocol; responsive to the requesting by the backup SEA, the primary SEA transmit an acknowledgment to the backup SEA and transitions into a sharing state; and responsive to the acknowledgment from the primary SEA, the backup SEA transitions to the sharing state.