ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,082, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Live workload migration for hardware offload capable NICS using RDMA" was invented by Wenyi Jiang (Fremont, Calif.), Jingchun Jason Jiang (Beijing) and Ankur Kumar Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of migrating a VM from a first host computer to a second host computer, the first host computer having a first PNIC that performs at least one of network forwarding operations and middlebox service operations for the VM. At an RDMA client executing on a set of one or more processors of the f...