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.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- one or more processing units to communicate configuration information between a subnet manager (SM) and at least one switch, the configuration information to enable the at least one switch to provide communication between at least two host machines through a plurality of network links that exclusively use two or more physical ports of the at least two host machines, the configuration information associated with a mapping and a relationship of different virtual network addresses, the mapping between the different virtual network addresses and two or more physical ports, and the relationship between the different virtual network addresses.
One or more processing units to facilitate a communication of configuration information between a subnet manager (SM) and at least one switch, the configuration information to enable the at least one switch to provide subsequent communications between at least two host machines through a plurality of network links that exclusively use two or more physical ports of the at least two host machines, the configuration information associated with a mapping and a relationship of different virtual network addresses, the mapping between the different virtual network addresses and two or more physical ports, and the relationship between the different virtual network addresses.
A method comprising:
- communicating configuration information between a subnet manager (SM) and at least one switch;
- enabling, by the configuration information, the at least one switch to provide communication between at least two host machines through a plurality of network links that exclusively use two or more physical ports of the at least two host machines;
- and
- associating the configuration information with a mapping and a relationship of different virtual network addresses, wherein the mapping is between the different virtual network addresses and two or more physical ports, and the relationship is between the different virtual network addresses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.