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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2004
Jerry Plouffe, Hollis, NH (US);
Scott H. Davis, Needham, MA (US);
Alexander D. Vasilevsky, Westford, MA (US);
Benjamin J. Thomas, Iii, Bedford, MA (US);
Steven S. Noyes, Sterling, MA (US);
Tom Hazel, Andover, MA (US);
Jerry Plouffe, Hollis, NH (US);
Scott H. Davis, Needham, MA (US);
Alexander D. Vasilevsky, Westford, MA (US);
Benjamin J. Thomas, III, Bedford, MA (US);
Steven S. Noyes, Sterling, MA (US);
Tom Hazel, Andover, MA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A management capability is provided for a virtual computing platform. In one example, this platform allows interconnected physical resources such as processors, memory, network interfaces and storage interfaces to be abstracted and mapped to virtual resources (e.g., virtual mainframes, virtual partitions). Virtual resources contained in a virtual partition can be assembled into virtual servers that execute a guest operating system (e.g., Linux). In one example, the abstraction is unique in that any resource is available to any virtual server regardless of the physical boundaries that separate the resources. For example, any number of physical processors or any amount of physical memory can be used by a virtual server even if these resources span different nodes.