Patent ID: 9104631
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a network virtualized environment that includes a hypervisor, one or more client logical partitions (LPARs), and one or more virtual servers that each has a shared ethernet adapter (SEA), wherein one of the SEAs is selected to be the primary SEA for use in configuring connections between one or more LPARs and specified physical resources, a computer program product executable in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising: instructions for operating a first SEA, comprising the SEA of a first one of the virtual servers, to send one or more calls to the hypervisor; instructions responsive to receiving one of the calls at the hypervisor, for operating the hypervisor to enter selected information which is contained in the received call and pertains to the first SEA, into an information table; instructions further responsive to receiving the call at the hypervisor, for operating the hypervisor to decide whether or not the first SEA of the selected virtual server should then be the primary SEA; and instructions for sending a specified return call from the hypervisor to the first SEA indicating the decision of the hypervisor.