Patent ID: 8677031

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: circuitry to facilitate, at least in part, a first network interface controller (NIC) in a client to be capable of accessing, via a second NIC in a server that is remote from the client and in a manner that is independent of an operating system environment in the server, at least one command interface of another controller of the server, the at least one command interface including at least one command queue of the another controller, the accessing including writing at least one queue element to the at least one command queue to command the another controller to perform at least one operation associated with the another controller, the another controller to perform the at least one operation in response, at least in part, to the at least one queue element; wherein: the circuitry comprises, at least in part, the second NIC and the another controller; the second NIC is to provide, at least in part, at least one indicator to the first NIC that the first NIC is to use to access to the at least one command interface; the at least one command interface also includes at least one completion queue, at least one doorbell, and at least one data buffer; the second NIC is to provide, at least in part, indicators to the first NIC to indicate, at least in part, where the at least one command queue, the at least one completion queue, the at least one doorbell, and the at least one data buffer are located; and the first NIC is to use one or more of the indictors to access the at least one command interface.