Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for virtualizing resources including peripheral components and peripheral interfaces. Peripheral component such as hardware accelerators and peripheral interfaces such as port adapters are offloaded from individual servers onto a resource virtualization switch. Multiple servers are connected to the resource virtualization switch over an I/O bus fabric such as PCI Express or PCI-AS. The resource virtualization switch allows efficient access, sharing, management, and allocation of resources.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 12, 2012
Date of Patent:
October 16, 2012
Assignee:
Xsigo Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Shreyas Shah, Subramaniam Vinod, Ramalingam K. Anand, Ashok Krishnamurthi
Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for virtualizing resources including peripheral components and peripheral interfaces. Peripheral component such as hardware accelerators and peripheral interfaces such as port adapters are offloaded from individual servers onto a resource virtualization switch. Multiple servers are connected to the resource virtualization switch over an I/O bus fabric such as PCI Express or PCI-AS. The resource virtualization switch allows efficient access, sharing, management, and allocation of resources.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 9, 2011
Date of Patent:
May 15, 2012
Assignee:
Xsigo Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Shreyas Shah, Subramaniam Vinod, Ramalingam K. Anand, Ashok Krishnamurthi
Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for virtualizing resources including peripheral components and peripheral interfaces. Peripheral component such as hardware accelerators and peripheral interfaces such as port adapters are offloaded from individual servers onto a resource virtualization switch. Multiple servers are connected to the resource virtualization switch over an I/O bus fabric such as PCI Express or PCI-AS. The resource virtualization switch allows efficient access, sharing, management, and allocation of resources.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 14, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 18, 2011
Assignee:
Xsigo Systems, Inc.
Inventors:
Shreyas Shah, Subramaniam Vinod, Ramalingam K. Anand, Ashok Krishnamurthi