Patent ID: 9116860
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system management server for a data center, the system management server comprising a computer processor and a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within the computer memory computer program instructions that when executed by the processor cause the system management server to implement cascading failover of blade servers in the data center by: transferring by the system management server a data processing workload from a failing blade server to an initial replacement blade server, the data processing workload characterized by data processing resource requirements, the initial replacement blade server having data processing resources that do not match the data processing resource requirements; and transferring by the system management server the data processing workload from the initial replacement blade server to a subsequent replacement blade server, the subsequent replacement blade server having data processing resources that better match the data processing resource requirements than do the data processing resources of the initial replacement blade server.