Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Intel Corporation

Iomega Corporation

Minqiang Wu

Jun Wu

Muzhar S Khokhar

Brian R Gruttadauria

Haitao Zhou

Brett P Wang

Wei Wang

Eric Wu

Michael Fisher

Wang Xiaogang

Winters Zhang

Hongbing Zhang

Butong Zhang

Jiangping Sun

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a message library update, wherein the message library update includes a plurality of error codes associated with a plurality of error/advisory messages. A specific error code concerning a storage system is compared to the plurality of error codes included within the message library update to identify a specific error/advisory message associated with the specific error code. The specific error/advisory message is provided to a user of the storage system.

Service advisory system and method

Techniques for proactively detecting configuration inconsistencies may include: receiving notification regarding an occurrence of a trigger event in a system, wherein the trigger event is one of a plurality of defined trigger events, and wherein the plurality of defined trigger events include one or more defined time periods; and responsive to receiving the notification, performing first processing including: capturing configuration information describing a current configuration of the system; and performing proactive consistency validation processing of the configuration information that detects inconsistencies between dependent entities of the current configuration. The proactive consistency validation processing may detect inconsistencies between dependent entities of the same type or different types. Metadata may identify dependencies between entities that may exist in a configuration. Responsive to detecting an inconsistency, a suitable action may be taken and/or user notified. The trigger events may include a user trigger, a critical event, and prior to performing an upgrade.

Proactive storage system configuration consistency validation

Techniques for performing an upgrade may include: receiving notification regarding an occurrence of a trigger event in a system, wherein the trigger event is included in a set of one or more defined trigger events, and wherein the set includes one or more defined time periods; and responsive to receiving the notification, performing first processing including: collecting configuration information describing a current configuration of the system, wherein the configuration information includes data storage device information identifying particular data storage devices in the system, a current version of software on the system, and a current version of firmware for a particular type of data storage device in the system; and performing proactive analysis of the configuration information that determines whether to recommend performing an upgrade to the firmware.

Techniques for performing an upgrade

Systems and methods are provided for capturing a complete baseline image of the operating environment of a host computer system on an external storage device and for generating incremental backups of the operating environment as changes to the operating environment are identified to create an aggregate baseline image of the operating environment of the host computer system. The external storage device can be disconnected from the host computer system and connected to a remote host where the aggregate baseline image can be used launch a remote host environment on a virtual machine running on the remote host. The remote host environment allows a user to make changes to the remote host environment and the changes can be written back to external storage device as a delta image that is included in the aggregate baseline image. The aggregate baseline image can then be synchronized with the native host.

Systems and methods for making incremental physical to virtual backups of computer system data

Systems and methods are described herein to provide for improved hardware device connectivity. Other embodiments include apparatus and system for receiving messages from an operating system and sending messages to one or more hardware devices. Further embodiments include methods for receiving messages from an operating system regarding operations on a hardware device and responding to those messages. Other embodiments include methods for receiving interrupt messages and mapping those interrupt messages to hardware devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Systems and methods for improved hardware device connectivity

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Shanghai, China

Minqiang Wu