Patent ID: 9400670
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A load balancing Information handling system (IHS) comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including a hypervisor that is configured to: receive from a hardware configuration management (HCM) system, via a network, a HCM database that includes configuration information including physical network identifier (PNet IDs) entries and respective associated physical adapter type entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries; transmit the HCM database to a load balancing tool in the memory; wherein the load balancing tool extracts configuration Information from the HCM database, the configuration information including PNet IDs entries and respective associated physical adapter ID entries, respective associated physical adapter type entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, thus providing extracted load balancing configuration information; wherein the load balancing tool groups, on a per PNet ID basis, particular physical adapter types from the extracted load balancing configuration information; wherein the load balancing tool determines whether adapter loads associated with adapters accessed by LPARs on the load balancing IHS are balanced; wherein the load balancing tool, in response to determination that adapter loads on the load balancing IHS are not balanced, determines target adapters that the load balancing tool can employ for adapter load balancing by referring to the grouped particular physical adapter types, the target adapters being those adapters that exhibit the same PNet ID and the same physical adapter type, and load balances access, by the associated LPARs, to the determined target adapters.