US 12,135,669 B1
Hardware for integration of servers into a management network
Michael Moen, Olympia, WA (US); Darin Lee Frink, Lake Tapps, WA (US); Ravi Akundi Murty, Kirkland, WA (US); Robert Charles Swanson, Olympia, WA (US); and Anthony Nicholas Liguori, Bainbridge Island, WA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/709,199.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/316,324, filed on Mar. 3, 2022.
Int. Cl. G06F 13/40 (2006.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 13/4081 (2013.01) [H04L 41/40 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a server provided by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), the server comprising:
a chassis;
a circuit board mounted within the chassis, the circuit board comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memory devices; and
a slot configured to accept an expansion card; and
a baseboard management controller (BMC) mounted within the chassis; and
a network virtualization offloading card provided by a third-party manufacturer, wherein the network virtualization offloading card is mounted in the chassis of the server, and wherein the network virtualization offloading card comprises:
one or more processors configured to perform virtualization management for virtual computing instances instantiated using the one or more processors of the server provided by the OEM; and
an interposer card mounted in the chassis of the server, and wherein the interposer card comprises:
a first connector configured to couple the interposer card with the slot of the circuit board of the server provided by the OEM;
a set of one or more additional connectors configured to couple the interposer card with a set of one or more connectors of the network virtualization offloading card; and
a baseboard management controller (BMC), wherein the BMC of the interposer card is separate from the BMC of the circuit board.