Network Adapter Hardware State Migration Discovery in a Stateful Environment
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Abstract
An approach is provided in which a discovery system receives a migration request to move a virtual machine that executes on a first system. The discovery system identifies a first network adapter corresponding to the first system, and identifies hardware state data used by the first network adapter to process data packets generated by the virtual machine. In turn, the discovery system identifies a second network adapter that is compatible with a native format of the hardware state data, and migrates the virtual machine to a second system corresponding to the identified second network adapter.
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9. An information handling system comprising:
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one or more processors; a memory coupled to at least one of the processors; a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of; receiving a migration request to move a virtual machine executing on a first system; identifying a first network adapter that corresponds to the first system, wherein the first network adapter includes hardware state data used to process data packets generated by the virtual machine, the hardware state data stored in a native format in a memory area located on the first network adapter; identifying a second network adapter that is compatible with the native format, wherein the second network adapter is included in a second system; and migrating the virtual machine to the second system. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer program code that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions comprising:
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receiving a migration request to move a virtual machine executing on a first system; identifying a first network adapter that corresponds to the first system, wherein the first network adapter includes hardware state data used to process data packets generated by the virtual machine, the hardware state data stored in a native format in a memory area located on the first network adapter; identifying a second network adapter that is compatible with the native format, wherein the second network adapter is included in a second system; and migrating the virtual machine to the second system. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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