Virtual storage target offload techniques

J Oshins, DL Green - US Patent 9,389,895, 2016 - Google Patents
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Virtual storage target offload techniques - Google Patents Virtual storage target offload …

Method for configuring a physical adapter with virtual function (VF) and physical function (PF) for controlling address translation between virtual disks and physical …

EJ Goggin, H Subramanian, S Aswani - US Patent 8,473,947, 2013 - Google Patents
Filed: Jan. 18, 2010(57) A method is provided for use in a system that includes a host (65)
Prior Publication Data computing machine configured to implement a virtualization …

Virtualization intermediary/virtual machine guest operating system collaborative SCSI path management

S Aswani, H Subramanian, EJ Goggin… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
A method of direct access by a virtual machine (VM) running on a host machine to physical
storage via a virtual function (VF) running on an input/output (IO) adapter comprising …

Multi-root I/O virtualization using separate management facilities of multiple logical partitions

AC Brown, DM Freimuth, RJ Recio… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
CONSOLE (HMC) 651 656 the base functions (BF) of the switches and IOAS. A hyper visor
provides device-independent facilities to the code run ning in the I/O Virtualization …

Differentiating blade destination and traffic types in a multi-root PCIe environment

AC Brown, DM Freimuth, RJ Recio… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Mechanisms for differentiating traffic types per host system blade in a multi-root PCI Express
environment are provided. The mechanisms generate a first mapping data structure that, for …

Virtual function boot in multi-root I/O virtualization environments to enable multiple servers to share virtual functions of a storage adapter through a MR-IOV switch

PR Maharana - US Patent 9,135,044, 2015 - Google Patents
A method for virtual function boot in a system including a single-root I/O virtualization (SR-
IOV) enabled server includes loading a PF driver of the PF of a storage adapter onto the …

Virtual target addressing during direct data access via VF of IO storage adapter

EJ Goggin, H Subramanian - US Patent 8,239,655, 2012 - Google Patents
A method of virtual machine (VM) access to physical storage through a direct path to a virtual
function (VF) of a storage adapter, the method for use in a system that includes a host …

Management of an IOV adapter through a virtual intermediary in an IOV management partition

AC Brown, DM Freimuth, RJ Recio… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Mechanisms that address the situation where an input/output (I/O) fabric is shared by more
than one logical partition (LPAR) and where each LPAR can share with the other LPARs an …

Implementing concurrent device driver maintenance and recovery for an SRIOV adapter in a virtualized system

CS Graham, JR Oberly III, TJ Schimke - US Patent 9,317,317, 2016 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing concurrent
adapter driver maintenance and recovery for a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization …

Differentiating traffic types in a multi-root PCI express environment

AC Brown, DM Freimuth, RJ Recio… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
Mechanisms for differentiating traffic types in a multi-root PCI Express environment are
provided. The mechanisms generate a first mapping data structure that, for each single-root …