System and Method for Sharing of Network Devices in a Hyper Converged Environment
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorsMukesh Gupta, Daniel E. Cummins
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Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computer system for dividing, by a computing device, a first physical Ethernet port of a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into a plurality of partitions. A first partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port may be assigned to a N-virtual distributed switch. A second partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port may be assigned with a plurality of functions. Ethernet packets may be switched between the plurality of functions in the second partition.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- dividing, by a computing device, a first physical Ethernet port of a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into a plurality of partitions;
- assigning a first partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port to a N-virtual distributed switch;
- assigning a second partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port with a plurality of functions;
- and
- switching of Ethernet packets between the plurality of functions in the second partition.
A computer program product residing on a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, causes at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- dividing a first physical Ethernet port of a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into a plurality of partitions;
- assigning a first partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port to a N-virtual distributed switch;
- assigning a second partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port with a plurality of functions;
- and
- switching of Ethernet packets between the plurality of functions in the second partition.
A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:
- dividing a first physical Ethernet port of a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into a plurality of partitions;
- assigning a first partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port to a N-virtual distributed switch;
- assigning a second partition of the plurality of partitions for the first Ethernet port with a plurality of functions;
- and
- switching of Ethernet packets between the plurality of functions in the second partition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.