Patent ID: 8180877
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of configuring a data processing system having one or more physical network adapters for facilitating network communications, the method comprising the following computer-implemented processes: a hypervisor creating a primary logical partition in the data processing system, the primary logical partition hosting a specified operating system; creating a first virtual network adapter within the primary logical partition; associating the first virtual network adapter with a first network address; binding the first virtual network adapter to the primary logical partition; creating a first logical subpartition within the primary logical partition; creating a second virtual network adapter within the primary logical partition; associating the second virtual network adapter with a second network address, wherein the second network address is not an alias network address of the first network address; binding the second virtual network adapter to the first logical subpartition; and a partition manager associating one or more physical network adapters with the first virtual network adapter and second virtual network adapter, wherein the network adapter is able to transmit and receive data of each of the virtual network adapters.