Emc Corporation

Robert P Valentine

Steven D Sardella

Douglas Sullivan

Thomas J Connor

Described is an enclosure that is configurable to perform either in-band or out-of-band enclosure management. The enclosure includes a midplane, a processor blade, and a management module. The processor blade has program code for collecting management information from other components in the enclosure. If the enclosure is configured for in-band enclosure management, the processor blade executes the program code to collect the management information. If the enclosure is configured for out-of-band enclosure management, the management module is configured to execute program code for collecting the management information instead of the processor blade.

Enclosure configurable to perform in-band or out-of-band enclosure management

A network attached storage system includes at least one data moving device coupled to a control station for receiving commands from the control station, each of the at least one data moving devices including a board having mounted thereon a file server portion and a power control portion, wherein the power control portion receives a continuous power supply and controls the application of power to the file server portion based on commands from the control station.

Power control in a data storage system

A system having expansion slots is capable of multiple configurations. In a first configuration, a first blade is coupled to a first module via a first expansion slot and a second blade is coupled to a second module via a second expansion slot. The first and second modules may be I/O modules such as PCI Express modules. In a second configuration the first and second blades are both coupled to a third module via the first and second expansion slots. The third module may be a shared resource such as a cache card.

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Auburn, MA, United States of America

Robert P Valentine