American Megatrends International, LLC

American Megatrends, Inc.

Amzetta Technologies, LLC

Muthukkumaran Ramalingam

Joseprabu Inbaraj

Varadachari Sudan Ayanam

Divya Nettem

Samvinesh Christopher

Stefano Righi

Sanjoy Maity

Chandrasekar Rathineswaran

Madhan B Santharam

Paul Anthony Rhea

Brandon Mitchell Burrell

Santhosh Samuel Mathews

Anurag Bhatia

Bakka Ravinder Reddy

Manikandan Ganesan Malliga

Gopinath Sekaran

Veerajothi Ramasamy

Jason Messer

Indira Valmiki

Venkatesaperumal Kondalsamy

Clark Kerr

Caarthyk Mano Sundar V

Nanda Kumar Kr

Brandon Burrell

An application framework for managing information technology ('IT') infrastructure includes components that enable jobs to be defined and executed that perform IT infrastructure management tasks. Jobs are defined utilizing a user interface (“UI”) that includes a first pane that provides functionality for receiving a selection of a target type of IT infrastructure for a job. Compatible action blocks are then displayed in a second pane of the UI. User input can be received associating action blocks with a third pane of the UI. When user input is received associating an action block with the third pane of the UI, a task identifier is displayed in the third pane of the UI. The UI can also receive a selection of target devices upon which the actions defined by a job are to be performed. The framework executes program code corresponding to action blocks in the job on the target devices.

Application framework for managing information technology infrastructure

A computing system includes a baseboard management controller ('BMC') that receives a security token from a management system. The computing system also executes a firmware that collects measurements from components of the computing system. The measurements include data describing the components for use in attestation. The firmware provides the measurements to the BMC, which generates a digital signature of the measurements and the security token. The BMC provides the measurements and the digital signature to the management system, which attempts to verify the digital signature utilizing a public key associated with the BMC. If the management system can verify the digital signature, then the BMC utilized the correct security key to generate the digital signature and the measurements were not tampered with after collection by the firmware. The measurements can then be utilized to attest the computing system.

Out-of-band (OOB) remote attestation

Technologies are described for performing firmware attestation on system reset. When a managed computing system is reset, a baseboard management controller ('BMC') generates a notification that the managed computing system has been reset and transmits the notification to an event listener executing in a management system by way of an out-of-band (“OOB”) network. The event listener receives the notification that the managed computing system has been reset and, in turn, causes a security manager executing in the management system to transmit a request for firmware attestation data to a platform security agent executing on the managed computing system. The security manager receives the firmware attestation data from the platform security agent by way of an in-band network and stores the firmware attestation data in a database for exposure to other program components for use in evaluating the trustworthiness of the firmware executing on the managed computing system.

Firmware attestation on system reset

A computer system includes a first baseboard management controller (BMC) and a first host of the first BMC. The first host operates a first storage service at the first host. The first host is a first storage device connected to one or more storage drives. The first storage service managing a first Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) controller for accessing user data stored on the one or more storage drives through a storage network. The first BMC receives state information of the one or more storage drives. The first BMC sends notifications to a client of the first BMC, in response to receiving the state information.

Techniques of sending alerts from storage services running on server san target

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a computer system are provided. A first BMC of the computer system sends hardware information of a first host of the first BMC. The first BMC receives information of at least one program for installation on the first host. The first BMC emulates a media device to the first host. The first BMC requests the first host to install the at least one program provided through the emulated media device. The first BMC transfers the at least one program to the first host through the emulated media device.

Bare metal provisioning of software defined infrastructure

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus retrieves health and performance data of one or more hypervisors of the VDI system from a data store. The apparatus also determines that a first hypervisor of the one or more hypervisors is in an alert condition based on the health and performance data. The apparatus then sends an alert message in accordance with the alert condition to an alert destination.

Mechanism for performance monitoring, alerting and auto recovery in VDI system

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a service processor. The service processor collects telemetry data from a host. The service processor manages the host. The service processor determines a subset of the telemetry data that are subscribed by a subscriber. The service processor sends the subset of the telemetry data to the subscriber.

Out-of-band telemetry data collection

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus retrieves health and performance data of one or more hypervisors of a VDI system from a data store. The apparatus further determines that a first hypervisor of the one or more hypervisors is in an alert condition based on the health and performance data. The apparatus determines the alert message based on the alert condition. The apparatus requests, in accordance with the alert condition, a social network service to send an alert message to an alert destination.

Alert mechanism for VDI system based on social networks

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a pod manager. The pod manager receives a data object for composing a target composed-node. The pod manager determines that the data object includes an indication for high-availability. The pod manager accordingly composes a collection of composed-nodes based on the data object. The pod manager further configures the collection of composed-nodes to function as the target composed-node.

Provisioning of high-availability nodes using rack computing resources

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus makes a first determination whether a load metric of a first hypervisor is in a first predetermined relationship with a first threshold. The first hypervisor is one of a plurality of hypervisors of a VDI system. The apparatus also makes a second determination whether an available capacity of a second hypervisor is able to run virtual desktops of the first hypervisor when the load metric of the first hypervisor is determined to be in the predetermined relationship with the first threshold. The first hypervisor migrates virtual desktops of the first hypervisor to the second hypervisor when the available capacity of the second hypervisor of the plurality of hypervisors is determined to be able to run virtual desktops of the first hypervisor. The apparatus also powers off the first hypervisor.

Power optimizer for VDI system

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a computer system are provided. A first device of the computer system provides a service interface for retrieving stored service request templates for executing actions on a computing pod. The first device receives, at the service interface, a template request for a service request template for constructing a reused service request, the reused service request requesting the computing pod to execute a first action. The first device retrieves the service request template from a data store in accordance with information provided by the template request. The first device sends the service request template in a response to the template request.

Techniques of preserving service request payloads

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a backup system are provided. The backup system obtains a first backup image of a first virtual desktop image of a VDI system. The backup system initiates a first validation of the first backup image against one or more constraints of the first backup image. The backup system initiates an alert procedure when the first validation has failed.

Backup validation of virtual desktop infrastructure system

Certain aspects direct to systems and methods for performing boot configuration of a thin client device with a portable storage device, such as a universal serial bus (USB) storage device. The system includes a computing device functioning as a thin client device, which has an interface under a protocol, such as the USB interface, allowing the portable storage device to be connected to the computing device via the interface. The portable storage device stores configuration data for configuring the computing device. Before booting, the computing device checks if the configuration data exists in a local storage device. If not, the computing device attempts to access the portable storage device, in order to automatically retrieve the configuration data from the portable storage device. Once the configuration data is obtained, the computing device may proceed with booting, and configure the computing device based on information of the configuration data without manual intervention.

Portable boot configuration solution for thin client device

Certain aspects direct to systems and methods for performing virtual machine (VM) management to provide efficient user login and minimize resource usage. The system includes a virtual machine server storing a hypervisor and multiple VMs, and a virtual desktop controller. The virtual desktop controller is configured to control the virtual machine server to execute the hypervisor, and to execute at least (M+S) instances of the VMs on the executed hypervisor. When the virtual desktop controller detects a current number X of the executed VMs on the executed hypervisor, the virtual desktop controller determines whether X is greater than M. If X is greater than M, the virtual desktop controller controls the virtual machine server to execute some instances unexecuted VMs as the spare VMs on the hypervisor, such that S instances of the spare VMs are available to provide efficient user login.

System and method for performing efficient failover and virtual machine (VM) migration in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

A location based mobile device security enforcement system includes: (a) a mobile device management (MDM) server, (b) a security control module, (c) an entry point security system, and (d) a mobile device security application, when installed and executed on a mobile device, configured to register the mobile device and its user to create a mobile device user profile for the mobile device user, when the mobile device and its user enter a secure area, authenticate the mobile device user, maintain constant contact with security control module, and make security adjustments to the mobile device if contact between mobile device and security control module is lost, mobile device security application becomes non-operational, current time is beyond the mobile device user authorized access time period, and current mobile device location is outside of mobile device user authorized access area or crosses borders between one area security level to another area security level.

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Muthukkumaran Ramalingam