Patent ID: 7944923
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a first virtual machine located on a first computer and associated with a first virtual network interface card (VNIC) on the first computer, a second virtual machine located on the first computer and associated the first VNIC and a second VNIC on the first computer, and a third virtual machine located on a second computer associated with a third VNIC on the second computer, wherein the first computer and the second computer are communicatively coupled with each other via a chassis interconnect, wherein the chassis interconnect is a Peripheral Component Interface Express (PCI-E) backplane; and a network express manager comprising: wherein the first VNIC is configured to: wherein the network express manager is configured to: wherein the network express manager implements the virtual wire using a virtual switching table and wherein the virtual switching table comprises a mapping of the second VNIC to a first PCI-E endpoint on the PCI-E backplane and a mapping of the third VNIC to a second PCI-E endpoint on the PCI-E backplane, and wherein the first computer is connected to the chassis interconnect at the first PCI-E endpoint and the second computer is connected to the chassis interconnect at the second PCI-E endpoint.