Dell Products Inc.

Emc Corporation

Geoffrey A Reid

Gaurav Chawla

John S Harwood

Douglas L Farley

Douglas E Peeke

James M Tuttle

Ethan A Kaley

William Price Dawkins

Jimmy Doyle Pike

Victor Fong

Steven D Sardella

Andrew Butcher

Tommi Salli

Brian K Bailey

Judith A Furlong

Kranti Uppala

James Peter Censabella, Jr

Techniques described herein relate to a method for instantiating composed information handling systems. The method includes obtaining, by a system control processor manager, a composition request to instantiate a composed information handling system; in response to obtaining the composition request: identifying at least one compute resource set having computing resources specified by the composition request; identifying at least one hardware resource set having the hardware resources specified by the composition request; setting up management services based on plugin requirements associated with the composition request using an at least one control resource set; and initiating the instantiation of the composed information handling system using the management services.

Method and system for instantiating composed information handling systems with plugins

A method comprises receiving a request for at least one network interface card resource, and identifying one or more network interface cards comprising the at least one network interface card resource. In the method, at least one virtualized computing resource image is received, and a workload is executed using an instance of the at least one virtualized computing resource image running on the one or more network interface cards. Workload execution includes implementation of a binding mechanism using one or more control groups and a given protocol. In addition, a cluster including one or more nodes comprising the identified one or more network interface cards is generated.

Management and utilization of network interface card resources for workload execution

A Logically Composed System (LCS) resource policy enforcement system includes resource devices coupled to an LCS provisioning administrator device, a client system, and an orchestrator device coupled to the resource devices and the client system. The orchestrator device uses a first subset of the resource devices to provide an LCS to the client system based on a workload intent provided by the client system, associates the LCS with a client identifier for the client system, and tags each of the first subset of the resource devices being used to provide the LCS with the client identifier. The orchestrator device then identifies a LCS policy for the LCS and applies the LCS policy to each of the first subset of the resource devices tagged with the client identifier to cause the LCS policy to be enforced on the client system and the LCS provisioning administrator device.

LCS resource policy enforcement system

A client-isolation internal/external fabric LCS provisioning system includes an orchestrator device coupled to a client device via an external fabric, and coupled to resource devices via an internal fabric that is not accessible to the client device via the external fabric. The orchestrator device configures the resource devices to communicate with each other in a manner that satisfies a workload intent for a workload requested by the client device, and presents an LCS provided using the configured resource devices to the client device via the external fabric. When the orchestrator device receives LCS communication(s) directed to the LCS from the client device via the external fabric, it provides instruction(s) to at least one of the resource devices via the internal fabric that are based on the LCS communication and that are configured to cause the at least one of the resource devices to perform function(s) for the LCS.

Client isolation internal/external fabric LCS provisioning system

In a system including multiple enclosures, unique enclosure addresses can be set automatically via software. The enclosure addresses may be stored in non-volatile memory within the enclosures. In a storage system, several enclosures contain several disk drives, wherein each disk drive requires a unique device address related to the enclosure in which it resides. A unique address is automatically assigned via software to each enclosure.

Techniques for accessing devices through a set of serial buses automatically setting unique enclosure addresses and detecting non-unique enclosure addresses upon initialization

Described are a storage system and method for detecting an intermittent loss of synchronization in communication signals received by an enclosure connected to a Fibre Channel loop. A control board produces a first signal representing a status of communication signals received by the control board. The first signal is in one of a plurality of logical states. A first logical state indicates that the status of the communication signals is invalid and a second logical state indicates that the status of the communication signals is valid. The control board includes a glitch-detection circuit that places a second signal in an asserted logical state when the first signal is in the first logical state during a time interval and holds the second signal at the asserted logical state when the first signal transitions from being in the first logical state to being in the second logical state during the time interval.

Detecting intermittent losses of synchronization in a fibre channel loop

Described are a system and method of detecting an improperly connected cable in a storage system. A system includes an enclosure having boards. Each board of the enclosure has a communications port that receives a message identifying a redundant backend network to which that board is connected. The enclosure determines whether the system has an improper cable connection by determining from the messages whether the boards are connected to the same redundant backend network.

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Geoffrey A Reid