Dell Products Inc.

Pravin Janakiram

Vaideeswaran Ganesan

Chandrasekhar Revuri

Suren Kumar

Hemant Ramesh Gaikwad

Tandava Venkata Krishna Popuri

Balaji Bondhili Singh

Chandrasekhar Puthillathe

Rajib Saha

Prasoon Kumar Sinha

Techniques are provided for performing server device updates using update baselines that are tagged across multiple management consoles. One method comprises obtaining, by a first management console of multiple management consoles associated with a server device, a first update baseline comprising a first tag identifier, of multiple tag identifiers, that identifies a first update of a component of the server device across the multiple management consoles; and applying the first update baseline to the server device in a maintenance mode to update the component of the server device, wherein the server device is maintained in the maintenance mode when two or more of the tag identifiers are active in the server device following the application of the first update baseline. The server device can be restored from the maintenance mode when only one tag identifier is active in the server device following the application of the first update baseline.

Server device updates using update baselines tagged across multiple management consoles

A system update appliance includes a processor and a memory device with a Content Addressable Storage (CAS) space and a location addressable storage space. The location addressable storage space partitioned into an object storage space and a device storage space. The processor stores a device entry in the device storage space. The device entry is associated with a device external to the system update appliance and includes a component entry for a component of the device. The component operates based on an update. The component entry includes a description of the component and a pointer to a record stored in the CAS space. The processor stores the record in the CAS space. The record is associated with a combination of the component and the first update. The record includes the description, a second pointer to an update repository, and a third pointer to the object storage space. When the update is not stored in the object storage space, the third pointer is a null pointer and when the update is stored in the object storage space, the third pointer includes an address of the update in the object storage space.

System and method for content addressable storage system update appliance

Techniques are provided for generating multi-layer configuration templates for deployment across multiple infrastructure stack layers. One method comprises evaluating a semantic equivalence of attributes in an attribute registry to identify common attributes that appear in multiple stack layers; identifying architecture-specific attributes that are distinct from the common attributes; obtaining a semantic attribute group comprising related attributes; determining a semantic attribute group configuration for the related attributes by evaluating a configuration of the related attributes identified in a deployment configuration and/or a reference template configuration comprising the related attributes; and generating a configuration template for configuring multiple server devices, wherein the configuration template comprises (i) a first portion that configures the common attributes based on a configuration in the reference template configuration, and (ii) multiple second portions, wherein each second portion comprises an architecture-specific configuration of the architecture-specific attributes for a corresponding architecture-specific infrastructure stack type.

Generating multi-layer configuration templates for deployment across multiple infrastructure stack layers

A deployment manager includes storage for storing a state repository including a state transitions associated with event descriptions generated by a computing device and a computing device manager. The computing device manager obtains a new event description associated with the computing device, and a workload performed by the computing device; in response to obtaining the new event description: matches the new event description to a state transition of the state transitions; and manages the workload based on a predicted next state associated with the state transition.

System and method for state management of devices

An information handling system determines zones within a datacenter that exhibit poor component life. Components of the information handling system provide error indications and have error thresholds and warranty durations. The components organized into zones. A component life manager receives the error indications, fits the error indications to curves, determines end of life estimates based upon the curves and the error thresholds, determines end of life dates based upon the end of life estimates and dates that the first error indication is received, determines losses of life based on the end of life estimates and the warranty durations, determines component life scores based upon the losses of life and the warranty durations, determines zone life scores based upon an average of the component life scores, determines a datacenter life score based upon an average of the component life scores, determines that a zone has a zone life score that is below the datacenter life score by more than a threshold, determines a condition of the zone is associated with the low zone life score, and changes the condition of the zone to improve the zone life score of the zone.

Apparatus and method for troubleshooting poor part life zones in a datacenter

A deployment consistency orchestrator includes storage for storing a manual update practice repository and a deployment characteristics repository. The orchestrator further includes an automated update practices manager that identifies a change in update practice event for a deployment; in response to identifying the change in update practice event: identifies, using the deployment characteristics repository, a portion of deployments having a classification that is similar to a classification of the deployment; identifies a portion of the manual update practices repository associated with the portion of the deployments; performs a commonality analysis using the portion of the manual update practices to identify consistent update practices associated with the classification of the deployment; and enforces the consistent update practices associated with the classification on the deployment.

System and method for managing deployments

An information handling system determines zones within a datacenter that exhibit poor component life. Components of the information handling system are organized into zones, and provide error indications and have error thresholds and warranty durations. A component life manager receives the error indications, fits the error indications to curves, determines end of life estimates based upon the curves and the error thresholds, determines end of life dates based upon the end of life estimates and dates that the first error indication is received, determines losses of life based on the end of life estimates and the warranty durations, determines component life scores based upon the losses of life and the warranty durations, determines zone life scores based upon an average of the component life scores, determines a datacenter life score based upon an average of the component life scores, and provides an indication when a zone life score is below the datacenter life score by more than a threshold.

Apparatus and method for detecting poor component life zones in a datacenter

An information handling system includes a component and a component life manager. The component provides error indications associated with aging of the component, and has a predefined error threshold and a predefined warranty duration. The component life manager receives the error indications, fits the received error indications to a curve, determines an end of life estimate based upon the curve and the error threshold, determines an end of life date based upon the end of life estimate and a date that the first error indication is received, determines a loss of life based on the end of life estimate and the warranty duration, and determines a component life score for the component.

Apparatus and method for managing part life in a datacenter

A method and data processing device for detecting connection of a second device at an interface of an IHS. The method includes receiving a request to modify at least one secure functionality associated with the IHS, the request comprising identification input. The method includes generating security credentials that correspond to a predetermined level of security that is assigned to the identification input. The method includes triggering the service processor to establish a secure communication link to the second device for communicatively connecting a digitally generated keyboard. The method includes autonomously inputting the security credentials to the digitally generated keyboard. The method includes signaling to the digitally generated keyboard to write the security credentials to the second device for use to obtain access to the IHS according to the predetermined level of security. Based on the predetermined level of security, the method includes enabling management of certain functionalities of the IHS.

Keyboard for provisioning security credentials

A method, an information handling system (IHS), and an event logging system generate combined event logs in an IHS. The method includes receiving, via a remote access controller (RAC), a tagged log containing operating system (OS) event data. A hardware log containing hardware event data is retrieved from a RAC memory. The tagged log and the hardware log are combined to form a combined event log containing both OS event data and hardware event data in a uniform format. The combined event log is stored to the RAC memory.

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