NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM UTILIZING PHYSICAL NETWORK IDENTIFICATION FOR CONVERGING OPERATIONS

摘要

The disclosed network resource management system employs a hardware configuration management (HCM) information handling system (IHS) that may couple to a single administered IHS or to multiple administered IHSs via an administrative network. An HCM tool in the HCM IHS may generate, modify and store hardware configuration information, including physical network identifications (PNet IDs), in an HCM database and share the HCM database with the administered IHSs. The administered IHS may be a remote direct memory access (RDMA) enabled network interface controller (RNIC) converging IHS. An RNIC converging tool may extract hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, from the HCM database. The RNIC converging tool may utilize the hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, to enable the RNIC converging IHS to communicate over a network with RDMA protocols.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a hypervisor of a first IHS, an HCM database that includes configuration information including physical network identifier (PNet IDs) entries and respective associated physical adapter type entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries; transmitting, by the hypervisor of the first IHS, the HCM database to a remote direct memory access network interface controller (RNIC) converging tool; extracting, by the RNIC converging tool, configuration information from the HCM database, the configuration information including PNet IDs entries and respective associated physical adapter type entries and respective associated logical partition (LPAR) access information entries, thus providing extracted RNIC converging configuration information; and grouping on a per PNet ID basis, by the RNIC converging tool, particular physical adapter types from the extracted RNIC converging configuration information.