Patent ID: 9075539
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for providing to each of a plurality of Working load Partitions (WPAR) in a server access to physical storage through a Virtual Input/Output Server (VIOS) of the server, comprising: a server with a processor to execute software to create a logical partition comprising at least one WPAR and a WPAR manager which controls access of each WPAR to the physical storage through virtual ports connected to the VIOS using Node Port Identification Virtualization (NPIV) protocol so that each WPAR has access to its own private memory of the physical storage; and physical storage connected to the VIOS of the server through a physical adapter, wherein the logical partition is divided into multiple WPARs, each of the multiple WPARs and the WPAR manager share a common operating system of the logical partition to perform their corresponding operations.