Patent ID: 9563464
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A system for leveraging multiprocessor fabric link aggregation, the system comprising: a processor; a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising: monitoring, by at least one hypervisor, data access patterns between at least three nodes within a single symmetric multiprocessing server, wherein the data access patterns are associated with the multiprocessor fabric link aggregation; generating, at the least one hypervisor, mappings for the data access patterns at the least three nodes, wherein the mappings for the data access patterns comprise at least one of an amount of data transferred between workloads across the at least three nodes, an amount of data transferred between workloads and input and output adaptors, and an amount of data transferred between one of the at least three nodes by workloads operating in another one of the at least three nodes; determining, based upon the mappings, the data access patterns for at least two of the at least three nodes are outside of a bandwidth threshold; formulating, in response to determining the data access patterns for at least two of the at least three nodes goes outside of a bandwidth threshold, an asymmetric cabling plan for the at least three nodes within the single symmetric multiprocessor server; and displaying to a user through a graphical user interface, based upon the asymmetric cabling plan, a recommendation to alter the multiprocessor fabric link aggregation.