Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac – Virtual machine task or process management
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-27
2010-06-22
Bullock, Jr., Lewis A (Department: 2195)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac
Virtual machine task or process management
C711S141000, C711S173000, C710S008000, C709S215000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07743375
ABSTRACT:
An information handling system includes instruction processing nodes in respective physical partitions. A communications bus couples two information processing nodes together. Each node includes hardware resources such as CPUs, memories and I/O adapters. Prior to a command to merge the physical partitions, the communication bus exhibits a disabled state such that the two information processing nodes are effectively disconnected. After receiving a command to merge the physical partitions, the system enables the communication bus to effectively hot-plug the two nodes together. A modified master hypervisor in one node stores data structures detailing the hardware resources of the two nodes. The modified master may assign resources from one node to a logical partition in another node.
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Goodman Benjiman Lee
Miller, II Milton Devon
Nayar Naresh
Bullock, Jr. Lewis A
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kahler Mark P.
Shimokaji & Associates P.C.
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