Habanero Holdings, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Geoffrey H Hanson

Nakul Pratap Saraiya

Cosmos Nicolaou

Yuri Finkelstein

Jeffrey Lloyd Griffen

Thomas D Lovett

Sharad Mehrotra

Fabio Onofrio Ingrao

Mangesh Shingane

Curtis M Collins

Russell M Clapp

Daniel H Bax

Shyam Mittur

Allen Hirashiki

William Jackson Bibb, Jr

Tom Gourley

Yuri Finklestein

Fabrio Onofrio Ingrao

A Cost-Reduced Enterprise Server (CRES) system includes a flexible resource-efficient server having a plurality of Processor Memory Boards (PMBs) coupled to an Input/Output Module (IOM). The IOM provides all networking and storage interfaces for the server. The IOM is implemented as a field-replaceable pluggable module, and thus all Input/Output (I/O) capabilities or resources of a CRES system may be upgraded via replacement of the IOM. Each PMB is dividable into a pair of Symmetric MultiProcessor (SMP) complexes, and each complex is coupled to a respective portion of the I/O resources provided by the IOM. Each portion of the IOM provides a pair of I/O daughter-module connectors compatible with standard I/O interfaces, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)-X and PCI-Express. One or more CRES systems may be coupled to one or more Enterprise Server (ES) systems to form a multi-chassis server managed collectively as one or more provisioned servers.

Fabric-backplane enterprise servers with pluggable I/O sub-system

Multi-chassis fabric-backplane enterprise servers include a plurality of chassis managed collectively to form one or more provisioned servers. A central client coordinates gathering of provisioning and management information from the chassis, and arranges for distribution of control information to the chassis. One of the chassis may perform as a host or proxy with respect to information and control communication between the client and the chassis. Server provisioning and management information and commands move throughout the chassis via an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol. Alternatively, the client may establish individual communication with a subset of the chassis, and directly communicate with chassis in the subset. Server provisioning and management information includes events generated when module status changes, such as when a module is inserted and becomes available, and when a module fails and is no longer available. Each chassis includes a switch fabric enabling communication between chassis modules.

Multi-chassis fabric-backplane enterprise servers

Real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers includes monitoring system status and configuration, displaying monitoring results, accepting user commands, and providing hardware and software management and configuration commands to the system. In one embodiment, an event is generated when a pluggable module is inserted into the system. In response to the event, the availability of the pluggable module is displayed to a system operator, and the operator enters a command to provision a server that includes the pluggable module. The server provisioning command is processed, resulting in a hardware configuration command being issued to the system, and an event indicating a status associated with processing the command is returned. The recognition of the inserted module, the display to the operator, and the processing of the server provisioning command occur in real time.

Unused resource recognition in real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers

Unused resource recognition in real time for provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers

Real time detection of changed resources for provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers

Real time notice of new resources for provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Geoffrey H Hanson