Method, system and program products for assigning an address identifier to a partition of a computing environment
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorGiles R. Frazier
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Abstract
Assignment of a unique address identifier to a partition of a computing environment is provided by extending the applicability of hunt groups. A single-member hunt group is initiated to provide an alias address (e.g., hunt group ID) which is associated with the partition of the computing environment. A token (or token and password) facilitates the association between the alias address and the partition. Subsequent communication between the partition and a fabric switch of the computing environment will use the alias address as a source or destination address identifier, thereby uniquely identifying the partition.
Claims31
A method of assigning an address identifier to a partition of a computing environment, said method comprising:
- receiving, at an alias server of a fabric of the computing environment, a request sent by a partition to initiate assignment of an address identifier;
- responsive to receiving the request, obtaining by the alias server an alias address uniquely identifying a single-member hunt group to be associated with the partition sending the request;
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- forwarding the alias address from the alias server to the partition sending the request, thereby providing the partition with the single-member hunt group uniquely identified by the alias address and associated with the partition to be used in future communications, wherein the alias address comprises the address identifier.
A system for assigning an address identifier to a partition of a computing environment, said system comprising:
- means for receiving, at an alias server of a fabric of the computing environment, a request sent by a partition to initiate assignment of an address identifier;
- means for obtaining by the alias server, responsive to receiving the request, an alias address uniquely identifying a single-member hunt group to be associated with the partition sending the request;
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- means for forwarding the alias address from the alias server to the partition sending the request, thereby providing the partition with the single-member hunt group uniquely identified by the alias address and associated with the partition to be used in future communications, wherein the alias address comprises the address identifier.
A system for assigning an address identifier to a partition of a computing environment, said system comprising:
- an alias server adapted to receive a request sent by a partition to initiate assignment of an address identifier, and to obtain, responsive to receiving the request, an alias address uniquely identifying a single-member hunt group to be associated with the partition sending the request;
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- wherein said alias server is further adapted to forward the alias address to the partition sending the request, thereby providing the partition with the single-member hunt group uniquely identified by the alias address and associated with the partition to be used in future communications, and wherein the alias address comprises the address identifier.
At least one program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of assigning an address identifier to a partition of a computing environment, said method comprising:
- receiving, at an alias server of a fabric of the computing environment, a request sent by a partition to initiate assignment of an address identifier;
- responsive to receiving the request, obtaining by the alias server an alias address uniquely identifying a single-member hunt group to be associated with the partition sending the request;
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- forwarding the alias address from the alias server to the partition sending the request, thereby providing the partition with the single-member hunt group uniquely identified by the alias address and associated with the partition to be used in future communications, wherein the alias address comprises the address identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.