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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTimothy J. Schimke, Prathima Kommineni, Amareswari Veguru, Jesse P. Arroyo
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Managing a pool of virtual functions including generating a virtual function pool comprising a plurality of virtual functions for at least one single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) adapter; creating a control path from a client virtual network interface controller (VNIC) driver in a first client partition to a target network using an active virtual function; receiving a failure alert indicating that the control path from the client VNIC driver in the first client partition to the target network using the active virtual function has failed; selecting, from the virtual function pool, a backup virtual function for the first client partition based on the failure alert; and recreating the control path from the client VNIC driver in the first client partition to the target network using the backup virtual function.
A method of managing a pool of virtual functions, the method comprising:
An apparatus for managing a pool of virtual functions, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
A computer program product for managing a pool of virtual functions, the computer program product disposed upon a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:
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