Local port grouping with rails of network links
AssigneeMellanox Technologies, Ltd.
InventorsLior Hodaya Bezen, Alex Netes, Mark Hummel, Glenn Dearth, Lion Levi
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Abstract
Systems and methods herein are for one or more processing units to communicate configuration information between a subnet manager (SM) and at least one switch, where the configuration information is to enable the at least one switch to provide communication between at least two host machines through a number of network links that exclusively use two or more physical ports of the at least two host machines, and where the configuration information is associated with a mapping of different virtual network addresses and two or more physical ports and is associated with a relationship between the different virtual network addresses.
Claims18
A system for local port grouping for at least two host machines in a network, comprising:
- a subnet manager (SM) to comprise a mapping of different virtual network addresses to two or more physical ports on the at least two host machines and to comprise a relationship between the different virtual network addresses, the mapping and the relationship to enable a plurality of network links that exclusively use the two or more physical ports;
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- at least one switch between the at least two host machines to receive configuration information from the SM, the configuration information associated with the mapping and the relationship of the different virtual network addresses and the configuration information to enable the at least one switch to provide communication between the at least two host machines through the plurality of network links.
A method for local port grouping for at least two host machines in a network, the method comprising:
- providing, in a subnet manager (SM), a mapping of different virtual network addresses to two or more physical ports on the at least two host machines and to comprise a relationship between the different virtual network addresses;
- communicating configuration information from the SM to at least one switch, the configuration information associated with the mapping and the relationship of the different virtual network addresses;
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- enabling, using the mapping and the relationship, a plurality of network links that exclusively use the two or more physical ports for communication between the at least two host machines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.