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Shreyas Shah0
Raymond Lim0
Ganesh Sundaresan0
Date of Patent
February 16, 2016
0Patent Application Number
110832580
Date Filed
March 16, 2005
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Methods and apparatus are provided for virtualizing resources such as host bus adapters connected to a storage area network. Resources are offloaded from individual servers onto a resource virtualization switch. Servers are connected to the resource virtualization switch using an I/O bus connection. Servers are assigned resources such as virtual host bus adapters and share access to physical host bus adapters included in the resource virtualization switch. Redundancy can be provided using multipathing mechanisms.
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