Dell Products Inc.

Damon Earley

Dominique Prunier

Eric Williams

Sudhir Vittal Shetty

Mukund Purshottam Khatri

Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye

Christopher Atkinson

Manoj Sharad Gujarathi

Susan Elizabeth Young

Matthew Christian Paul

Srija Dasika

Michael Emery Brown

Elie Antoun Jreij

Christoper Atkinson

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: generating a tag for an object within a system, the tag for the object associating a contextual meaning with the object; registering, via a tag association tracker module, the tag when the tag is generated; and, storing the tag within a tag association tracking storage repository when the tag is registered by the tag association tracker module.

Data center monitoring and management operation including a data tag association tracking operation

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: generating a data tag for an object within a data center asset, the generating the data tag for the object associating a contextual meaning with the object; mapping the data tag to the object, the mapping the data tag to the object associating a data tag with the object; determining when an aspect of the data tag is changed; and, automatically updating the data tag to provide an updated data tag, the automatically updating the data tag ensuring that only an authorized user can manage an aspect of the protected data tag.

System and methods for dynamic tags

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module, the data center asset client module comprising a file download module, the data center asset client module storing a file block; establishing a connection between the data center asset client module and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator, the connectivity management system aggregator communicating with a file distribution service, the file distribution service communicating with a file tracker service, the location of the software component being maintained by the file tracker service; and, distributing the file block from the data center asset client module to the data center asset client module via the file download module.

Connectivity management system client software distribution operation

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: generating a data tag for an object within a data center asset, the generating the data tag for the object associating a contextual meaning with the object; mapping the data tag to the object, the mapping the data tag to the object associating a data tag with the object; and, protecting the data tag to provide a protected data tag, the protecting the data tag ensuring that only an authorized user can manage an aspect of the protected data tag.

Data center monitoring and management operation including a protected data tag operation

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module, the data center asset client module including an endpoint extension; providing an endpoint with a data center asset client extension; establishing a connection between the data center asset client module and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; and, communicating between the endpoint and the connectivity management system via the data center asset client extension.

Connectivity management system client and host aware extensions for non-embedded use cases

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module and an embedded data center asset client module; establishing a secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a data center asset client module authentication request; authenticating the data center asset client module in response to the data center asset module authentication request; and, configuring software in the data center asset in response to authentication of the data center asset client module.

Data center asset client module authentication via a connectivity management authentication operation

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a plurality of data center assets with a respective plurality of data center asset client modules; establishing a connection between the respective plurality of data center asset client modules and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; discovering interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets; and, generating a topological map of the plurality of data center assets based upon the interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets.

Connectivity management system client inventory and configuration operation for interconnected connectivity management clients

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module; establishing a connection between the data center asset client module and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; determining whether an endpoint is coupled to the data center asset client module; identifying interconnectivity information associated with the data center asset client module and the endpoint; and, providing the connectivity management system aggregator with the interconnectivity information.

Connectivity management environment endpoint discovery via connectivity management system client

Methods and systems for modular system awareness in virtualized information handling systems (IHSs) include generating, by a chassis management controller (CMC), dependency information indicating which ones of modular IHSs included in a chassis are dependent on individual shared components in the chassis. When a fault occurs at one of the shared components, the CMC may determine, using the dependency information, which particular ones of the modular IHSs are operationally dependent on the fault. The CMC may send information indicative of the fault and of the dependent modular IHSs to a virtual machine manager, which may generate a ranking of virtual machines. The virtual machine manager may use the rankings to make migration decisions for virtual machines among modular IHSs.

Modular system awareness in virtualized information handling systems

Component-level fault detection in virtualized information handling systems

Systems and methods for Virtual Machine (VM) attribution with hardware information. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and a memory coupled to the CPU, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the CPU, cause the IHS to: provide a management console configured to manage a plurality of hypervisors, each hypervisor configured to be executed in a different one of a plurality of physical servers distinct from the IHS, each hypervisor further configured to create and run at least one Virtual Machine (VM); identify, via the management console, a hardware capability of a given one of the plurality of physical servers; and assign the VM, by the management console, to the given physical server in response to the identification of the hardware capability.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Damon Earley