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US 2014/0006594 A1Published application
Scalable off-load of applications from switch to server
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCynthia Ann Gabriel, Bill Shao
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Abstract
Systems and methods include a network element with a plurality of server blades, including a control server and one or more application servers. The control server communicates with each application server to acquire state information about each application server. A switch is in communication with each server blade. The switch is configured to communicate with the control server in order to obtain therefrom the state information acquired by the control server about each application server.
Claims22
A network element comprising:
- a plurality of server blades including a control server and one or more application servers, the control server communicating with each application server to acquire state information about each application server;
- and
- a switch in communication with each server blade, the switch being configured to communicate with the control server in order to obtain therefrom the state information acquired by the control server about each application server.
A method comprising:
- configuring a switch to offload to a control server a function of obtaining state information about each application server of a plurality of application servers;
- obtaining, by the control server, the state information about each application server of the plurality of application servers;
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- asynchronously communicating between the switch and the control server in order for the switch to acquire the state information about each application server obtained by the control server.
1 more element
A data center comprising:
- a plurality of interconnected network elements, each network element comprising a switch and a plurality of server blades including one or more application servers, the server blades of a given one of the network elements further including a control server, the control server communicating with each application server of each network element to acquire state information about that application server,
- wherein the switch of the given network element is in communication with each server of the plurality of server blades of the given network element, the switch of the given network element being configured to communicate with the control server in order to obtain therefrom the state information acquired by the control server about each of the application servers of each network element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.