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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Sanjeev Kumar, Pune, IN;
Jayrama S. Praturi, Hyderabad, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An appliance interconnection system and method. The system includes a high speed private local area network (LAN) and a logical cluster of appliances comprising a plurality of physical sub-clusters of appliance nodes. Each node of the appliance nodes includes a different generation node. The plurality of sub-clusters are interconnected via the high speed private LAN. A sub-cluster (N) of the plurality of physical sub-clusters comprises a first plurality of nodes of the appliance nodes. The sub-cluster (N) is associated with a plurality of (M) generation appliances of the logical cluster of appliances. Each appliance of the plurality of (M) generation appliances comprises a same type of appliance. (N) comprises a first cluster number and (M) comprises a first generation number of a first generation. The plurality of sub-clusters, in combination, form a single logical cluster.