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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2011
Ronghua Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Saleem Abdulrasool, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mallik Mahalingam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Boon Seong Ang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ronghua Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Saleem Abdulrasool, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mallik Mahalingam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Boon Seong Ang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Core dump is performed over a network without relying on network device drivers. Instead of network device drivers, firmware of network devices that is typically used during boot is preserved in memory post-boot, and one or more application program interfaces of the firmware are invoked to perform the network core dump. For ease of implementation, a network bootstrap program that has standard application program interfaces for calling into the firmware of network devices may be invoked when performing core dump over the network.