International Business Machines Corporation

Dell Products Inc.

Hanzhang Gu

Jun Chen

Chuan Li

Jun Gu

Charlie Chen

An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to perform an upgrade of a plurality of hosts of an information handling system cluster by: determining a score for each host based on hardware metrics of each host; based on the determined scores, selecting a first host for upgrading; migrating virtual machines from the first host to one or more other hosts; and causing the first host to perform the upgrade.

Accelerated lifecycle management in HCI systems

The disclosure provides a method for accelerating the rebuilding of storage arrays. The method comprises identifying a failure of an original storage device that is a member of a storage array and reconstructing lost information that was on the original storage device onto one or more first storage devices based on information stored on one or more of remaining members of the storage array. Each of the one or more first storage devices has a higher I/O throughput than the original storage device.

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Shanghai, China

Hanzhang Gu