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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2004
James P. Allen, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Austin, TX (US);
Giles Roger Frazier, Austin, TX (US);
Robert George Kovacs, Austin, TX (US);
Satya Prakesh Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
James P. Allen, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Austin, TX (US);
Giles Roger Frazier, Austin, TX (US);
Robert George Kovacs, Austin, TX (US);
Satya Prakesh Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for migrating an operating system from a source computer to a destination computer. Some embodiments include identifying a destination adapter of the destination computer that is coupled for data communications to a SAN that is also coupled for data communications to a source adapter of the source computer, logging off a virtual port name of the source adapter from the login manager, deregistering the virtual port name from the source adapter, registering the virtual port name with the destination adapter, and logging on the destination adapter to the login manager with the virtual port name. Typical embodiments also include transferring the operating system from the source computer to the destination computer.