Patent ID: 7426560

Claim:
A method comprising: for a client of a data center of a telecommunications network, assigning a quality of service requirement at a server level by providing a quality of service descriptor in each of a plurality of blade servers of said data center, said quality of service descriptor including a register located within an integrated circuit chipset included within each blade server, said register including a first field identifying a client assigned to the blade server, a second field identifying a type of service to which the blade server is dedicated, a third field identifying at least one performance parameter for the blade server, and a fourth field identifying at least one respective quality of service requirement for the client assigned to the blade server; and managing support of said quality of service requirement at said server level by monitoring a performance of each of said blade servers and in the event of a reduced performance of at least one of said blade servers, changing an assignment of said blade servers to respective clients based on information in respective quality of service descriptors of said blade servers by re-assigning a blade server assigned to a first client with a first quality of service requirement to a second client with a second quality of service requirement, wherein said second quality of service requirement is higher than said first quality of service requirement.