Dell Products Inc.

Dell USA L P

Armando Jaime Martinez

Anil Venkatasubba Rao

Frank L Wu

Roger M Blood

Kevin Lee Miller

Russell Allen Bauer

Kurt Wade Shetler

Sarat Krishnan

Zaid G Sofia

Jack Kroun

A blade server includes two or more server blades where each server blade includes a server, and two or more memory devices. The server blades arbitrate among themselves to designate one of them as a master server blade. The master server blade allocates the memory devices.

System and method for allocating memory devices among information handling systems in a chassis

A storage subsystem backplane management system includes a storage controller and a service processor. A first backplane including a first management controller is coupled to the storage controller and the service processor. The first backplane is operable to couple a plurality of first drives to the first management controller. A second backplane including a second management controller is coupled to the first management controller. The second backplane is operable to couple a plurality of second drives to the second management controller. The first management controller communicates with the second management controller and creates a virtual management controller that presents to the storage controller and the service processor a virtual backplane including the plurality of first drives and the plurality of second drives when the plurality of first drives are coupled to the first management controller and the plurality of second drives are coupled to the second management controller.

Storage subsystem backplane management system

A system and method for remotely updating a system BIOS. The method includes the steps of providing an updated BIOS to the remote computer system, storing the updated BIOS in a storage device of the remote computer system, setting a BIOS update indicator, rebooting the remote computer system and determining that the BIOS update indicator has been set, replacing the system BIOS with the updated BIOS, and rebooting the remote computer system again. The storage device may be hard drive, with the updated BIOS being stored in an EFI partition of the hard drive.

System and method for performing remote BIOS updates

A method and system for choosing the control processor for booting a multiprocessor system ( ) in accordance with a memory ( ). A computer system ( ) includes a plurality of computer processors ( ). The processors ( ) use a memory bus ( ) to communicate with the main memory ( ). A second bus ( ) connects the processors ( ) to an interupt controller ( ). The second bus ( ) includes multiple bus request lines ( ). An initialization control circuit ( ) also communicates with the second bus ( ). Memory ( ) in the initialization control circuit ( ) holds data identifying at least one of the processors ( ) and when power is first provided to the system, the initialization control circuit ( ) operates to assert signals on the bus request lines ( ) such that the identified processor initializes the computer system.

Method and system for booting a multiprocessor computer

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Armando Jaime Martinez