Cisco Technology, Inc.

Dmitry Barsky

Luca Cafiero

Tao Wang

Satyanarayana Nishtala

Mario Mazzola

Gururaja A Nittur

Krishna Mohan

Michael V Dvorkin

Chidananda Satya Kumar Patchava

Matthew Eli Lazarowitz

Chidananda Sataya Kumar Patchava

Techniques are provided herein for optimizing boot order for devices in a data center environment. These techniques may be embodied as a method, apparatus and instructions in a computer-readable storage media to perform the method. A computing apparatus having connectivity to a network receives a service profile boot policy from a management device in the network. The service profile boot policy includes attributes identifying boot devices hosted by the computing apparatus. Data representing the service profile boot policy is stored and an order of boot devices hosted by the computing apparatus is generated. The order is generated according to the attributes of the service profile boot policy. Boot devices are excluded from the order according to the attributes of the service profile boot policy.

Stateless flexible boot control

Techniques presented herein provide approaches for generating a markup language object that describes a variety of BIOS setup variables and which allow the markup language object to be passed to the management system, as well as allow retrieval of a normalized BIOS from the management system. Doing so allows the management system to be used to easily and efficiently control a large number of server systems within a data center.

Bios parameter virtualization via BIOS configuration profiles

This document discusses, among other things, an example system and methods for memory expansion. An example embodiment includes receiving first initialization data from a physical dual inline memory module (DIMM) and converting the first initialization data to second initialization data of a logical DIMM mapped to the physical DIMM. The example embodiment may further include programming a memory controller based on the second initialization data.

System and methods for memory expansion

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Dmitry Barsky