Patent ID: 8028189
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for deploying computing infrastructure, comprising integrating computer-readable code into a computing system having a plurality of hardware adapters, where the code in combination with the computing system processes hardware errors of the hardware adapters by performing a method comprising: detecting, at an interface to an operating system of the computing system, a hardware error in the computing system; responsive to the detecting, determining at least one of the hardware adapters that potentially generated the hardware error, and quarantining the at least one of the hardware adapters; and, following the quarantining, completing a handling of the hardware error without invoking a crash of the computing system; wherein the quarantining is performed by the interface; and the completing of handling of the hardware error is performed by the operating system; the interface comprises a kernel extension of a device driver associated with the operating system; and, the quarantining comprises resetting the at least one of the hardware adapters and invoking a warm start of device drivers associated with the operating system responsive to the detecting of the hardware error.