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Communicating Between Host Computers and Peripheral Resources in an Input/Output (I/O) Virtualization System

  • US 20110055433A1
  • Filed: 05/31/2010
  • Published: 03/03/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a management central processor unit (MCPU) coupled to transport fabric;

    a plurality of device interfaces coupled to the transport fabric and to a plurality of independent input/output (IO) devices, the plurality of independent IO devices initialized in an MCPU domain; and

    a plurality of host interfaces coupled to the transport fabric, wherein each host interface couples to a host computer of a plurality of independent host computers and exposes functions of the plurality of independent IO devices to the host computer, each host computer of the plurality of independent host computers accessing the functions from a host domain that is an independent domain specific to the host computer performing the access, wherein the MCPU domain is different from the host domain.

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