Dell Products Inc.

Jon Robert Hass

Sudhir Vittal Shetty

William Price Dawkins

Jianwen Yin

Charles Terrence Perusse, Jr

Khachatur Papanyan

Radhakrishna Reddy Dasari

William C Edwards

Valerie Diane Padilla

Elie Antoun Jreij

Cyril Jose

Weijia Zhang

Javier Luis Jimenez

Christopher Abella Poblete

Kevin Warren Mundt

James Robert King

Cuong T Nguyen

Muhammed K Jaber

Vance Edward Corn

Abhay Arjun Salunke

Sankunny Jayaprasad

Srihari Srirangam

Juan Rafael Vega

Sankara Rao Gara

Justin A Kenney

Abeye Teshome

Sumanth Vidyadhara

Kevin Thomas Marks

Marshal F Savage

Joseph Kozlowski

Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni

Michael Emery Brown

Chandrasekhar Mugunda

Sundar Dasar

Mahesh Babu Ramaiah

Pushkala Iyer

Matthew Lee Domsch

Theodore Stratton Webb

Choudary Maddukuri

Vigneswaran Ponnusamy

Satyajit Dipakbhai Desai

Steven P Zessin

Jerry M Jones

Sumeet Kukreja

Sailaja Mahendrakar

Selvaraju Subbiah

Mark A Young

In general, the invention relates to providing computer implemented services using information handling systems. One or more embodiments of the invention includes identifying a hardware resource requirement in a composition request for a composed information handling system, wherein the hardware resource requirement specifies a hardware resource with data transformation functionality (DTF), identifying a hardware resource that does not have the DTF, connecting the hardware resource to a DTF container, wherein the DTF container implements the DTF and emulates the hardware resource with DTF, and initiating composition of the composed information handling system using the DTF container, wherein the DTF container satisfies the hardware resource requirement.

Method and system for a utilizing a proxy service to generate a composed information handling system

In general, the invention relate to providing computer implemented services using information handling systems. One or more embodiments includes after being allocated to a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems: monitoring health of a hardware resource of the composed information handling system, making a determination, based on the monitoring of the health of the hardware resource, that the hardware resource is in a compromised state, and based on the determination, initiating a hardware replacement operation using replacement option information (ROI) for the hardware resource and replacement conditions for the hardware resource.

Method and system for automated healing of hardware resources in a composed information handling system

Techniques described herein relate to a method for composition for complex solutions. The method may include receiving, by a system control processor manager, a composition request to compose a composed information handling system, the request comprising a solution manifest file; parsing, by the system control processor manager, the solution manifest file to identify a solution requirement set; performing, using the solution requirement set, an analysis of a telemetry data map and a topology and connectivity graph; making a determination, based on the analysis, that the composition request may be satisfied using resources represented in the topology and connectivity graph; and composing the composed information handling system based on the determination.

Resource selection for complex solutions

In general, the invention relates to providing computer implemented services using information handling systems. One or more embodiments of the invention includes receiving a request to decompose a composed information handling system, wherein the composed information handling system comprises a hardware resource, obtaining a cleaning requirement for the hardware resource, initiating, based on the cleaning requirement, a cleaning operation on the hardware resource, receive a confirmation that the cleaning operation is complete, and after receiving the confirmation, set a state of the hardware resource to allocatable.

Method and system to place resources in a known state to be used in a composed information handling system

An information handling system for composing composed information handling systems includes persistent storage and a system control processor. The system control processor, after being allocated to a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems: monitors health of computing resources of the composed information handling system; makes a determination, based on the monitoring of the health of the computing resources, that at least one of the computing resources is in a compromised state; and, based on the determination, marks the at least one of the computing resources for recomposition.

Method and system for maintaining composed systems

Techniques described herein relate to a method for building resource zone information, the method may include performing a discovery to obtain a set of compute resources, a set of target resources, and a set of fabric managers; constructing, based on the discovery, a topology and connectivity graph that includes the set of compute resources, the set of target resources, and connections between the set of compute resources and the set of target resources; selecting a compute resource of the set of compute resources; creating a zone comprising the compute resource; making a first determination, using the topology and connectivity graph, a subset of targets of the set of target resources that are connected to the compute resource; and adding the subset of targets to the zone.

Managing composition service entities with complex networks

Embodiments provide unique identification of telemetry reports generated by components of an IHS (Information Handling System) that supports a plurality of metric data sources. A source of metric data is detected, where the source may be a fixed or replaceable IHS component. The metric source is identified within a device descriptor table maintained by a remote access controller of the IHS. Based on a unique user-friendly label that is associated with the metric data source in the device descriptor table, the metric source is configured to generate metric reports. The generated metric reports are received and the label provided by the metric source is used to store data from the metric reports in a database row using the label as a unique database key. The user-friendly label can be used to perform efficient database queries without using a separate database column for storing a user-friendly description of the metric source.

Unique identification of metric values in telemetry reports

Telemetry system metric data that is collected within a data center may be collectively analyzed in order to identify zones within the data center that exhibit deviations in reported metric data. The analyzed metric data is collected from IHSs (Information Handling Systems), such as servers, operating in the data center. The metric data reported by the respective IHSs identifies the location the IHS within the data center. The collected metric data is analyzed to identify metrics that are correlated with locations within the data center. Within the identified metric data that is correlated with data center locations, a zone of the data center is identified that includes a subset of IHSs that have reported anomalous metric data relative to the metric data reported by neighboring IHSs. For instance, such a zone may be an aisle of the data center, one or more racks, and/or rows of servers spanning multiple racks.

Telemetry system supporting identification of data center zones

Methods and systems for monitoring, by a baseboard management controller, a network interface of an information handling system, identifying one or more management information exchanges between the information handling system and a plurality of information handling systems, identifying one or more telemetry metrics associated with the one or more management information exchanges on a hardware level, storing the one or more telemetry metrics into a telemetry metrics database of the information handling system, transmitting a telemetry metrics report including the one or more telemetry metrics to a service provider for analysis, analyzing, by the service provider, the telemetry metrics report to indicate a percent usage of an overall usage capacity associated with each device of a plurality of devices of the information handling system, and transmitting a usage report to each of the plurality of information handling systems based on the analysis of the telemetry metrics report.

System and method to monitor usage of information handling system using baseboard management controller

A method and system for multivariate profile-based host operational state classification. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail the generation of non-geometric shapes derived from operational state inferring features reflective of at least a portion of host device telemetry aggregated for host devices. The non-geometric shapes may subsequently be mapped onto a high-dimensional feature space and, thereafter, assigned into clusters representative of given target operational states that may be exhibited by the host devices. Based on identified operational states, assigned to the non-geometric shapes, reactive actions may be invoked to address or rectify operations and/or configurations on the host devices.

Method and system for multivariate profile-based host operational state classification

In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may receive, via a network, multiple subscription requests from respective multiple baseboard management controllers (BMCs) of respective multiple information handling systems (IHSs); may receive, via the network, authentication information from a first information handling system (IHS), different from each of the multiple IHSs; may determine that the first IHS is authenticated to access the multiple BMCs; may receive, via the network, multiple publication requests from the first IHS to access, via the network, the multiple BMCs respectively; may receive, via the network, multiple queries from the multiple BMCs respectively associated with the multiple subscription requests; may determine that the multiple publication requests are associated with the multiple subscription requests and are associated with the multiple queries associated with the multiple subscription requests; and may establish network communications with the first IHS and the multiple BMCs.

System and method of establishing communications with multiple information handling systems

A resource management system that includes at least one managed computing system including a plurality of hierarchal computer resources and a server computing system that is coupled to the at least one managed computing system through a network. The server computing system includes a broker in communication with a plurality of providers. The broker is configured to receive a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) request for a first resource of the plurality of hierarchal computer resources included in the at least one managed computing system. The URI request includes a resource path that identifies the first resource by a hierarchy of a plurality of collections. The broker is configured to determine a last collection in the hierarchy of the plurality of collections that matches a first provider of the plurality of providers, and forward the request directly to the first provider such that the first provider processes the URI request.

Resource management system

In one embodiment, an information handling system may include a processor, a display that may provide a user interface allowing a user to select one or more system utilities to be accessed, memory that may include a plurality of memory partitions storing a plurality of system utilities, and a management controller. During a configuration of the information handling system, the management controller may receive a request from the user via the user interface to access one or more selected system utilities; identify one or more memory partitions storing the one or more selected system utilities; and cause the display to display one or more user-selectable icons corresponding to the one or more identified memory partitions to provide the user access to the one or more identified memory partitions.

Systems and methods for accessing system utilities

An information handling system includes a communication device and a service processor. The communication device includes a first terminal, and a second terminal to communicate with a network storage array. The service processor includes a first terminal to receive configuration settings for the communication device, and a second terminal to provide the configuration settings to the communication device. The service processor configures the communication device based on the configuration settings during a first boot sequence of the information handling system. A power-on self test of a basic input/output system of the information handling system is stalled while the service processor configures the communication device based on the configuration settings, and the information handling system is booted from a workload on a storage array identified in the configuration settings without using a second boot sequence of the information handling system.

System and method for reducing boot time of a workload configuration on a target server

An information handling system includes a communication device and a service processor. The communication device includes a first terminal, and a second terminal to communicate with a network storage array. The service processor includes a first terminal to receive persistence policy for the communication device. The service processor is configured to detect a reset of the information handling system, to determine a type of reset performed in an information handling system, to evaluate the persistence policy with respect to the type of reset during a power-on self test executed in the information handling system after the information handling system, and to configure, via the first terminal of the communication device, the attributes of the communication device based on the persistence policy and the type of reset.

System and method for policy based management of a communication device configuration persistence

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