American Megatrends International, LLC

American Megatrends, Inc.

Maerican Megatrends International, LLC

Anurag Bhatia

Winston Thangapandian

Samvinesh Christopher

Sanjoy Maity

Venkatesan Balakrishnan

Chitrak Gupta

Jason Messer

Ajay Kumar Gupta

Yi-Wei Chiu

George Hsin

Valantina Arumugam

Kiran Kumar Ballapalli

Joseprabu Inbaraj

Satheesh Thomas

Clark Kerr

Varadachari Sudan Ayanam

Harikrishna Doppalapudi

Purandhar Nallagatla

Baskar Parthiban

Muthukkumaran Ramalingam

Ramakoti Reddy Bhimanadhuni

Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran

Viswanathan Swaminathan

Aruna Venkataraman

Gopinath Sekaran

David Wise

Subash Kalbarga

Balaji Nagalingam Rajendiran

Rama Bisa

Ryan McCutcheon

Hemanthkumar M

Venkatesan Balakrishan

Suresh Vijayakumar

Utpal Patel

Pravinash Jeyapaul

Pokuri Sivakrishna

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a BMC. The BMC receives a management instruction directed to a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switch. The BMC generates a corresponding command for the PCIe switch based on the management instruction. The BMC transmits the corresponding command to the PCIe switch to configure or operate the PCIe switch dynamically.

Enabling out-of-band generic PCIe switch control/configuration management using BMC for dynamic, scalable hardware requirements

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus is a BMC. The BMC detects a boot failure from both an active firmware image and a recovery firmware image. The BMC starts a recovery protocol to acquire a fallback firmware image from a first source once it identifies the failure. The BMC flashes the obtained fallback firmware image onto its storage device. The BMC initiates a boot process using the fallback firmware image.

Automatic BMC and bios firmware recovery

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a BMC. The BMC detects a platform type of a modular hardware system. The BMC searches for platform-specific files in a storage of the BMC based on the detected platform type. The BMC determines whether the platform-specific files are present in the storage of the BMC. When the platform-specific files are present in the storage of the BMC, the BMC reads the platform-specific files from the storage of the BMC, and the BMC initializes a service using the platform-specific files read from the storage of the BMC.

Dynamic platform selection and sensor management

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a computer system are provided. The computer system includes one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices provide access to a first firmware image containing firmware of a baseboard management controller (BMC) through a cloud platform. The one or more computing devices receive, from a first device of a first subscriber, a request to retrieve the first firmware image according to a first subscription. The one or more computing devices grant, to the first device, access to the first firmware image.

Cloud based subscription and orchestration of continuous integration and deployment for firmware

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a BMC are provided. The BMC receives an update package containing one or more updated software components of a firmware image of the BMC to replace corresponding existing software components running on the BMC. The BMC shuts down the existing software components and executes the one or more updated software components. The BMC calculates one or more first stability factors of the one or more updated software components. The BMC compares the one or more first stability factors with one or more second stability factors of the corresponding existing software components. The BMC determines whether to keep the updated software components based on a comparison result.

Updating firmware based on firmware stability index

A system and a method of offloading and migrating management controller functionalities using containerized services are provided. Specifically, a computing device may request a container image from a container management system by sending an instruction to the container management system to select a group of management functionalities to be provided in the container image. In response to receiving the instruction, the container management system retrieves a corresponding group of the services corresponding to the selected group of management functionalities, and creates the container image using the retrieved services. Upon receiving a request from the computing device for the container image, the container management system sends the container image to the computing device, such that the container image may be executed on the computing device to provide a virtual management device thereon. The container image is also capable of being migrated from the computing device to another computing device.

System and method of offloading and migrating management controller functionalities using containerized services and application thereof

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a computer system are provided. The computer system includes a BMC. The BMC determines a booting configuration based on setting of the BMC. The BMC determines, from a firmware image and according to the booting configuration, a group of components, of an OS of the BMC, to be loaded into a memory of the BMC. The BMC determines, from the firmware image, storage locations of the group of components. The BMC obtains a first set of components of the group from one or more network locations according to the storage locations.

Customized fit image descriptors for resources stored over the network

A container management infrastructure is provided for deployment of management features using a containerized service on a management device and applications thereof are provided. In operation, the infrastructure receives, from a remote computing device, an instruction to select a group of management functionalities. In response, the infrastructure retrieves a corresponding group of the services corresponding to the selected group of management functionalities from a first cloud network, creates a container image using the retrieved group of the services, and deploy the container image to a second cloud network. The second cloud network receives and stores the container image. Upon receiving a request from a remote computing device for the container image, the second cloud network sends the container image to the remote computing device, such that the container image may be executed on the remote computing device to provide a virtual management device thereon.

Deployment of management features using containerized service on management device and application thereof

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a computer system are provided. The computer system includes a baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC receives a first message from a first remote device on a management network. The BMC determines whether the first message is directed to a storage service or fabric service running on a host of the BMC. The host is a storage device. The BMC extracts a service management command from the first message, when the first message is directed to the storage service or fabric service. The BMC sends, through a BMC communication channel to the host, a second message containing the service management command to the host. The BMC communication channel established for communicating baseboard management commands between the BMC and the host.

Common server san core solution to enable software defined storage

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a device are provided. The device determines one or more feature components of firmware of a BMC to be tested. The device also determines a respective QA category from a plurality of QA categories for each of the one or more feature components. Each of the plurality of QA categories is associated with a set of feature components and a set of the test cases. The device further determines respective at least one test case for each of the one or more feature components based on the respective QA category of the each feature component. The test case specifies hardware and a procedure to be used to test the each feature component.

Automatic framework to create QA test pass

A computer system includes a BMC and a host of the BMC. The BMC receives a first message from a first remote device on a management network. The BMC determines whether the first message is directed to a storage service or fabric service executed on a main processor of a storage controller of the host. The host is a storage device. The storage controller includes an RDMA controller in communication with the main processor through an internal communication channel of the storage controller. The RDMA controller is managed by the storage service. The BMC extracts a service management command from the first message, when the first message is directed to the storage service or fabric service. The BMC sends, through a BMC communication channel established for communicating baseboard management commands between the BMC and the host, a second message containing the service management command to the host.

Enablement of software defined storage solution for NVME over ethernet fabric management on storage controller

A computer system includes a BMC and a host of the BMC. The BMC redirect, through a BMC communication channel, a local media including a disk management tool to a host of the BMC as a particular drive. The host is a storage device connected to one or more storage drives. The disk management tool is configured to prepare a storage area of the one or more storage drives for installation of storage service on the host. The storage service managing a RDMA controller at the host. The BMC configures the host to boot from the particular drive. The BMC sends a first instruction to the host instructing the BMC to reboot. The BMC receives from the host a command for reading the disk management tool. The BMC sends the disk management tool to the host.

Auto-provisioning and auto-installation of server SAN target

A computer system has a first node including a first baseboard management controller (BMC) and a first host of the first BMC. The first node determines that the first node is an active node. The first node operates a first storage service at the first host. The first host is a first storage device connected to one or more storage drives. The first storage service manages a first Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) controller for accessing user data stored on the one or more storage drives. The first node indicates to a second node that the first node is operating normally. The first node syncs data available on the first node with the second node.

Enabling high availability in server SAN enabled storage box

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a device are provided. The device determines that a target event occurred at a first server in a group of servers that are jointly managed. The device obtains, for the first server, a public-private key pair including a first key and a second key. The device provides the first key to the first server such that the first server is accessible by authentication with the first key. The device provides the second key to a client device such that the first server is accessible by the client device by providing the second key to the server. Subsequently, the device revokes the first key from the first server.

Secure remote online debugging of firmware on deployed hardware

A computer system includes a first baseboard management controller (BMC) and a first host of the first BMC. The first host operates a first storage service at the first host. The first host is a first storage device connected to one or more storage drives. The first storage service managing a first Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) controller for accessing user data stored on the one or more storage drives through a storage network. The first BMC receives state information of the one or more storage drives. The first BMC sends notifications to a client of the first BMC, in response to receiving the state information.

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Anurag Bhatia