Correlating hardware devices between local operating system and global management entity

One or more computer-readable memory devices embodying instructions, that when executed by a processor, implement a failover manager configured to:

• receive, from an instance of a local operating system, a fault message including a local identifier of a faulting device of a partition of a server;
• determine, based on the fault message, a global identifier of the faulting device, the global identifier different from the local identifier;
• search, based on the global identifier, an information table for information associated with the faulting device;
• search, based on the information associated with the faulting device, the information table for one or more available devices of the server;
• select, from the one or more available devices of the server, a replacement device for the faulting device of the partition of the server;
• and
• map the selected replacement device to the faulting device by updating a routing table effective to allow services of the instance of the local operating system to operate on the replacement device.

A computing device comprising:

• a mass storage device storing an operating system;
• one or more logical partitions of devices, each logical partition of devices configured to execute a respective instance of the operating system;
• and
• one or more computer-readable memory storage devices storing an information table and a routing table;
• and
• a service processor configured to:
• receive, from one of the logical partitions executing a respective instance of the operating system, a fault message including a local identifier of a faulting device of the logical partition;
• determine, based on the fault message, a global identifier of the faulting device of the logical partition, the global identifier different from the local identifier;
• search, based on the global identifier, the information table for information associated with the faulting device of the logical partition;
• search, based on the information associated with the faulting device, the information table for one or more available devices of the computing device;
• select, from the one or more available devices, a replacement device for the faulting device for the logical partition;
• and
• map the selected replacement device to the faulting device by updating a routing table effective to allow services of the respective instance of the operating system to be executed by the logical partition of the computing device.