VIRTUALIZING STORAGE FOR WPAR CLIENTS USING NODE PORT ID VIRTUALIZATION

Patent №

US 8,301,848

Granted

2012-10-30

Filed 2008

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12135382

Mechanisms for providing to a plurality of WPARs private access to physical storage connected to a server through a VIOS are disclosed. In one embodiment, a server is logically partitioned to form a working partition comprising a WPAR manager and individual WPARs. Each WPAR is assigned to a different virtual port. The virtual ports are created by using NPIV protocol between the WPAR and VIOS. Thereby, each WPAR has private access to the physical storage connected to the VIOS.

AI hardwareG06F 3/0664G06F 3/061G06F 3/062G06F 3/067G06F 3/0671G06F 9/5077G06F 3/0661

AI classification

AI hardware0.60
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
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Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 211130837

Assignors

CYR, MICHAEL P., PAFUMI, JAMES A., ROSAS, MORGAN J., VALLABHANENI, VASU

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