Patent ID: 8037364

Claim:
A server blade chassis comprising: a primary Management Module (MM) and a secondary MM, wherein the primary MM and the secondary MM allocate jobs to specific server blades; a performance-based switching logic that selectively couples the primary MM and the secondary MM to each of a plurality of server blades; and a separate Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) associated with said each of the plurality of server blades, wherein the plurality of server blades are initially coupled to and managed by the primary MM, and wherein each said BMC determines whether the primary MM is meeting a pre-determined minimum performance requirement, and wherein, in response to one or more determining that the primary MM is not meeting, the pre-determined minimum performance requirement, one of said BMCs instructs the performance-based switching logic to decouple the primary MM and to couple the secondary MM to the server blades, and wherein, in response to one or more BMCs determining that the secondary MM is unable to meet the pre-determined minimum performance requirement, one or more of said BMCs initiates a partial failover in which the primary MM and the secondary MM share management responsibilities over the server blades.