Patent ID: 11928367
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit of a network interface controller (NIC) of a computer accesses data in a network, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
receiving a first set of configuration data from a first network device for translating logical memory addresses into memory addresses of the first network device;
from the computer, receiving a request to access data stored at a logical memory address;
translating the logical memory address into a memory address of the first network device that stores the requested data;
sending a data message to the first network device to retrieve the requested data, wherein after the sending of the data message a second network device replaces the first network device in a storage network; and
receiving a second set of configuration data from a second network device for translating the logical memory addresses into memory addresses of the second network device, wherein the first network device is shut down after a grace period that allows for the NIC and NICs of other computers to update configuration data for translating logical memory addresses.