Patent ID: 8880937

Claim:
A system configured to limit impact of a repair action on availability of the system, the system comprising: a plurality of server cards comprising one or more computer processors and a memory, the plurality of server cards providing a plurality of compute nodes each having local storage, each server card executing a respective hypervisor that in turn executes a respective plurality of virtual machines, the plurality of server cards including a first server card; and a midplane comprising a fabric interconnect; a first interposer card comprising a switch module configured to switch network traffic for the first server card, wherein the first interposer card is disposed between the midplane and the first server card, thereby operatively connecting the midplane and the first server card, wherein the first interposer card is hot-swappable from the midplane, wherein the first server card is hot-swappable from the first interposer card; wherein the system is configured to: detect that the switch module has failed; and upon detecting that the switch module has failed, output for display an indication to perform the repair action on the switch module.