Patent ID: 9448958
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a hypervisor of a first IHS, an a hardware configuration manager (HCM) database that includes configuration information including physical network identifier (PNet ID) entries and respective associated physical adapter type entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries; transmitting, by the hypervisor of the first IHS, the HCM database to a bridging tool; extracting, by the bridging tool, configuration information from the HCM database, the configuration information including PNet ID entries and respective associated physical adapter ID entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, thus providing extracted physical bridging configuration information, wherein the extracted physical bridging configuration information identifies a given physical adapter of the bridging IHS and indicates that the given physical adapter connects to a given physical network having a given PNet ID; extracting, by the bridging tool, configuration information from the HCM database, the configuration information including PNet ID entries and respective associated virtual adapter ID entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, thus providing extracted virtual bridging configuration information, wherein the extracted virtual bridging configuration information identifies a given virtual adapter of an LPAR executing within the bridging IHS and indicates that the given virtual adapter connects to the given physical network having the given PNet ID; grouping on a per PNet ID basis, by the bridging tool, particular physical adapters from the extracted physical bridging configuration information sorted by PNet ID with particular virtual adapters from the extracted virtual bridging configuration information sorted by PNet ID; and bridging via a virtual switch within the hypervisor, by the bridging tool, a physical adapter in the first IHS and a virtual adapter in the first IHS that exhibit a s PNet ID, wherein the bridging tool configures the virtual switch to bridge the given physical adapter and the given virtual adapter such that the given virtual adapter connects to the given physical network via the virtual switch.