Dell Products Inc.

Ravishankar Kanakapura N

Karthik Sethuramalingam

Suman Lal Banik

Ravikanth Chaganti

Naman Goel

Prasoon Kumar Sinha

Harsha Naik

Rishi Mukherjee

Abhishek Gupta

Ramesha He

Muniswamy Setty K S

Prasad Rao

Shrinidhi Katte

Winston X Fernandes

Rishi Chandra

Sachin Apagundi

Nandini Arulmani

Lakshmikanth Dhanaraju

Praveen Kumar H P

Praveen Naik

Naveen Dhanaraju

Abhinav Anshuman

Vikram Kannambadi Vishwanath

Systems and methods provide failover operations for witness sled hardware installed in a chassis. The chassis may include data storage devices and Information Handling Systems (IHSs), each storing data redundantly to the storage devices, such as in a vSAN. A primary witness sled provides witness functions, such as arbitrating discrepancies in the redundantly stored data. The chassis includes a chassis management controller (CMC) that connects with the primary witness sled via a management signaling pathway and maintains a copy of witness transactions stored by the primary witness sled based on transactions transmitted via the management signaling pathway. The CMC generates an inventory of co-located witness sleds. Upon detecting the primary witness sled is not operational, the CMC selects a failover witness sled from the inventory of co-located witness sleds and migrates witness operations of the primary witness sled to the selected failover witness sled.

Systems and methods for high-availability witness sleds

Described herein are methods and a system device management of multiple tools or consoles in a data center, where the consoles control devices in the data center. The consoles are identified with unique identifiers. A capability list of devices in the data center, a provider policy as to the multiple consoles, and a grant matrix as to device capability and consoles is used by a baseboard management controller of a device to determine control of a console over the device.

Method and system for device capability and transfer using dynamic context aware negotiation

An information handling system receives a notification regarding a state of the information handling system, and determines an alert management policy associated with the notification regarding the state of the information handling system. The system also applies an alert management action to enforce the alert management policy.

Policy-driven alert management

An information handling system may include a processor and a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management facilities for management of the information handling system, the management controller further configured to, in response to a triggering event for collecting a hardware inventory, collect identifying information for information handling resources of the information handling system and a location for each of the information handling resources, order the identifying information in accordance with a schema for ordering the identifying information, concatenate the identifying information into a string in accordance with the schema, generate a signature from the string, compare the signature to an existing inventory signature for the information handling system, and generate a notification in response to the signature mismatching the existing inventory signature.

Systems and methods for inventory collection in a management controller

A method includes obtaining data associated with a volatile storage device and a non-volatile storage device of an information handling system during a normal mode of operation of the information handling system, and calculating a first data transfer frequency and a first transfer data size from the volatile storage device to the non-volatile storage device based on the data associated with the volatile storage device and the non-volatile storage device during the normal mode of operation of the information handling system. The method also includes detecting an event indicating a power outage of the information handling system, and in response to the detecting the event, determining a data management policy to be applied to the information handling system during the safe mode of operation of the information handling system. The method also includes calculating a second data transfer frequency and a second transfer data size from the volatile storage device to the non-volatile storage device based the data management policy, and updating a first setting and a second setting in a data management system that enforces the data management policy.

System and method for data protection during power loss of a storage system

A network (e.g. cloud or enterprise network) includes servers () and switches () each of which has multiple ports. A bare-metal server's ports are configured for different roles, e.g. management role or data role. The configuration is at least partially automated using a blueprint () which does not necessarily specify the roles for the server ports, but may associate a role with a network parameter, e.g. Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) or QoS. A management computer () obtains, from switches, (i) network parameters configured on switch ports, and (ii) MAC addresses for the adjacent server ports. The management computer matches the blueprint's parameters with the switch ports' parameters, and associates matched parameters with the roles specified by the blueprint. These roles are configured on the corresponding server ports. Other features are also provided.

Discovery and configuration in computer networks

Method and systems provide automated configuration of replaceable hardware components of a chassis comprising a plurality of IHSs (Information Handling Systems) and a plurality of storage devices that are configured to support demands of a specific computing solution designed for a particular computing task. The IHSs may be computing sleds and the storage devices may be storage sleds, where the sleds are coupled within bays of the chassis. Processes operating on the IHSs monitor for changes to settings related to the first computing solution. A chassis management controller detects updates to the replaceable hardware components that are coupled to the chassis and determines supported settings for detected new hardware components. Parameters for configuring the new hardware components for supporting the first computing solution are selected and used to configure the new hardware components.

Systems and methods for automated field replacement component configuration

In one embodiment, a method for managing a plurality of edge devices based on a predicted network bandwidth utilization includes: identifying a plurality of management tasks associated with the plurality of edge devices, each of the plurality of management tasks associated with a priority; determining a management task of the plurality of management tasks to be assigned to an edge device of the plurality of edge devices; accessing a time series indicating the predicted network bandwidth utilization of the plurality of edge devices; generating a threshold value for the management task based on the time series, the threshold value corresponding to a percentage of the predicted network bandwidth utilization and including one or more available time slots; determining that the predicted network bandwidth utilization is less than the threshold value; and assigning the management task to the edge device.

Managing edge devices based on predicted network bandwidth utilization

Method and systems support configuring components of a chassis comprising a plurality of IHSs (Information Handling Systems). A management controller of the chassis initiates a process for identifying a plurality of hardware and software capabilities of the chassis. Based on the identified capabilities, computing solutions, such as specialized computation and storage functions, supported by the chassis are determined. The computing solutions supported by the capabilities of the chassis are encoded, such as within a set of compatibility bits. Upon detecting updates to the hardware and software capabilities of the chassis, the encoded compatibility bits are used to determine compatibility of the updated capabilities with computing solutions supported by the chassis. The encoded solution compatibility information is transmitted to a solution manager that monitors compliance of multiple chassis within a datacenter and identifies chassis that are compatible with a particular computing solution without querying the individual chassis.

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Ravishankar Kanakapura N