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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGregory W. Dake, Eric R. Kern, Andrew B. McNeill, JR., Martin J. Tross, Theodore B. Vojnovich, Ben-Ami Yassour
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Failover of blade servers in a data center including powering off a failing blade server by a system management server through a blade server management module (‘BSMM’) managing the failing blade server, the failing blade server characterized by a machine type, one or more network addresses, and one or more storage addresses, the addresses being virtual addresses; identifying, by the system management server from a pool of standby blade servers, a replacement blade server, the replacement blade server managed by a BSMM; assigning, by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server, the one or more network addresses and the one or more storage addresses of the failing blade server to the replacement blade server, including enabling in the replacement blade server the assigned addresses; and powering on the replacement blade server by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server.
A method of failover of blade servers in a data center, the method comprising:
An apparatus for failover of blade servers in a data center, 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 capable of:
A computer program product for failover of blade servers in a data center, the computer program product disposed in a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions capable of:
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