International Business Machines Corporation

Jing Peng

Ya-Huey Juan

Michael Nghiem Nguyen

Brian C Kraemer

Tracy N Waller

Ronald David Martens

Ye Na Chen

Yibo Xu

Embodiments herein provide for a method of dynamically converting servers and a computer and storage readable medium configured to do the same. In the method a first server enters a server conversion while a second server performs one or more network services. A current physical hardware configuration and logical hardware configuration of a first server and a second server is verified. Possible conversions are calculated of one or more valid logical hardware configurations and one or more valid physical hardware configurations based on the current hardware configurations of the first server and the second server. A valid physical hardware configuration is selected for both servers from the calculated possible conversions. The physical hardware is updated for the conversion of the physical hardware configuration of the first server. The current logical configuration of the first server converts to a valid logical hardware configuration based on the calculated possible conversions.

Dynamic conversion of hardware resources of a server system

In one aspect of the present description, in a distributed node management system for a distributed computing system having multiple processor nodes, each processor node has a local data structure which contains a 'to-do tasks' synchronization table that resides on each such processor node. The 'to-do-tasks' synchronization table contains one or more actions that each processor node may perform to facilitate maintaining the operations of the associated processor node with equivalent knowledge of the system configuration, status and backup capabilities as the other processor nodes of the distributed computing system. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.

Dynamic correlated operation management for a distributed computing system

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Jing Peng