Patent ID: 8650273
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing virtual machine out-of-band management in information handling systems comprising: providing an information handling system comprising a host server and a remote access controller; wherein the host server comprises a host operating system, a plurality of virtual machines, and a hypervisor; wherein the remote access controller comprises a virtual serial concentrator; sending, using the hypervisor, an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) original equipment manufacturer (OEM) type command to the remote access controller when a new virtual machine is launched on the host server; wherein the sent IPMI OEM type command indicates a number of serial ports requested, host names, and a mapping of each requested serial port; in response to receiving the IPMI OEM command, the remote access controller emulating the number of requested serial ports with a number of composite universal serial bus (USB) ports to the host server; allowing, via the virtual serial concentrator, a plurality of remote users to concurrently access a plurality of serial management consoles of the plurality of virtual machines by creating serial over LAN control sessions using the emulated serial ports; allowing, via the remote access controller, any of the plurality of remote users to view and control any of the created serial over LAN control sessions.