Patent ID: 11927999
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 20:
21. A non-transitory storage medium to store machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:
provide, via a smart network interface card (NIC), an input/output (I/O) service for a host of a computer platform, wherein the I/O service comprises a service associated with a cloud operator domain, the smart NIC to be received in a connector of a motherboard of the host, and the host to comprise an application layer associated with a cloud tenant domain; and
provide a virtual baseboard management controller on the smart NIC to manage components of the smart NIC other than the virtual baseboard management controller, and manage the host, comprising communicating with the host via the connector to control a system power state, wherein managing components of the smart NIC other than the virtual baseboard management controller comprises the virtual baseboard management controller, responsive to remote messaging, changing a power state of the smart NIC.