Patent ID: 8274881
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, in a data processing system, for altering access to a network, the method comprising: receiving, by a virtual I/O server controller in a virtual I/O server operating system of the data processing system, an indication that an identified communications adapter requires attention; issuing a set of calls, by the virtual I/O server controller, to a set of N_port identification virtualization server adapters coupled to the identified communications adapter, wherein each of the set of calls indicates to each of the set of N_port identification virtualization server adapters a request to move a set of clients from their assigned port on the identified communications adapter to an available port on a failover communications adapter; and moving, by the set of N_port identification virtualization server adapters, the set of clients from the identified communications adapter to the failover communications adapter, wherein an associated N_port identification virtualization server adapter in the set of N_port identification virtualization server adapters moves each client in the set of clients by: