Patent ID: 7966402
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of blades, wherein none of the plurality of blades include a video controller and none of the plurality of blades include keyboard video mouse (KVM) redirection logic; a plurality of video modules; a first switch configured to selectively couple any one of the plurality of video modules to any one of the plurality of blades, wherein the first switch selectively coupling a particular one of the plurality of video modules to a particular one of the plurality of blades causes the particular blade to detect addition of the particular video module as a hot plug event, and wherein the particular blade has an operating system that is responsive to the hot plug event to load a video driver to operate with the particular video module; and a management subsystem coupled to the first switch and the plurality of video modules and configured to control the first switch to selectively couple any one of the plurality of video modules to any one of the plurality of blades in response to a request.