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

Claim 0:
1. A method for accessing data in a network, the method comprising:
at a network interface controller (NIC) of a computer:
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 for subsequent requests from the computer, 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.