Patent ID: 9548890
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: determining, by a management application in a network environment, whether sufficient remote direct memory access (RDMA) resources are available in the network environment to satisfy a request for RDMA resources; specifying, by the management application, the requested RDMA resources in a network profile of a workload, the network profile comprising a software definition of the workload, including placement, network connectivity, instances of application deployment, port configuration and server configuration of the workload; associating the network profile with a network interface endpoint of the workload executing on a host in the network, the host being separate from the management application in the network; and communicating the network profile by the management application over a control plane across the network to a virtual interface card (VIC) adapter that processes RDMA packets of the workload executing on the host, wherein the VIC adapter configures the requested RDMA resources in the VIC adapter's hardware, wherein the requested RDMA resources are mapped to a host memory for use by the network interface endpoint.