摘要 |
<p>A computer system is described having a plurality of hardware resources, a plurality of virtual partitions having allocated thereto some of those of hardware resources or parts thereof, said virtual partitions having an operating system loaded thereon, a partition monitoring application layer, which is capable of determining whether one or more of the partitions has failed, wherein said partition monitoring application layer also includes at least one hardware resource diagnostic function which is capable of interrogating at least one of the hardware resources allocated to a partition after failure of said partition, and a hardware resource reallocation function which is triggered when the hardware diagnostic function determines that one or more particular hardware resources associated with a failed partition is healthy, and which reallocates that healthy resource to an alternate healthy partition. A method of reallocating such hardware resources is also disclosed.</p> |