Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Veritas Operating Corporation

John Joseph Glen

Venkatanarasimhan Kannamangalam Ramakrishnan

Subhojit Roy

Mukul Kumar

Amitava Guha

Kishore Kumar Reddy Devireddy

Justin R Unger

Kishore K R Devireddy

Technology for partitioning nodes based on capabilities in a hyper-converged infrastructure is disclosed. In an example computer system, the system detects connection of a new node element to the computer system. The system assigns the new node element an electronic address in the computer system. The computer system then boots the new node element using a pre-existing bootable image stored at the hyper-converged infrastructure system. The computer system uses a federated control plane to discover the new node element. The federated control plane determines a capability of the new node element. The federated control plane assigns the new node element to a global storage pool.

Partitioning nodes in a hyper-converged infrastructure

Methods and devices for provisioning a hyper-converged infrastructure of bare metal systems are disclosed herein. Two fabric elements are configured in a master-slave arrangement to ensure high availability. ONIE capable fabric elements may be pre-installed with an operating system as firmware to run open network operating systems, such as Linux. The Linux operating system includes a KVM hypervisor to run virtual machines. An operating system of the virtual machines can access an external network by creating a bridge between switch management ports and a virtual network interface. New node elements may be added by connecting the network ports of the new node element to the fabric elements and booting the new node element in a network/PXE boot mode. The new node element obtains an IP address from a DHCP server and boots an image downloaded from a PXE server.

Provisioning the hyper-converged infrastructure bare metal systems from the top of the rack switch

A method and system for virtualization switch failover is disclosed. According one embodiment of the present invention, a failure of a first virtualization device within storage a area network interconnect and associated with a unique interconnect device identifier is detected and the unique interconnect device identifier is responsively associated with a second virtualization device of the storage area network interconnect.

Method and system for virtualization switch failover

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