Dell Products Inc.

Shawn Joel Dube

Timothy Michael Lambert

Robert L Winter

Andrew Butcher

Jimmy Doyle Pike

Robert Wayne Hormuth

Bradley John Booth

Quy Hoang

Geng Lin

Hendrich M Hernandez

Matthew Lee Domsch

Robert Warren Johnson

Elie Antoun Jreij

Stuart Allen Berke

Kevin Warren Mundt

Paul Theodore Artman

Dominick Adam Lovicott

Mark A Muccini

Robert Boyd Curtis

Chandrasekhar Puthillathe

Rajeshkumar Ichchhubhai Patel

Muhammed K Jaber

Surender V Brahmaroutu

Pablo Rafael Arias

Binay A Kuruvila

Dan Rao

Theodore S Webb, Iii

Mukund Purshottam Khatri

Sandor Tibor Farkas

Sudhir Vittal Shetty

John Erven Jenne

Corey Dean Hartman

Arnold Thomas Schnell

Stephen Edward Strickland

Isaac Qin Wang

Johan Rahardjo

Jeffrey Michael Lewis

Wade Andrew Butcher

John Ross Palmer

Sajjad Ahmed

Syed S Ahmed

Douglas Evan Messick

Ralph H Johnson

Kyle Eric Cross

Jonathan Foster Lewis

Wayne Robert Weilnau, Jr

Michael J Roberts

Jeffrey Scott Layton

Joyce Gil Metevier

Tim Lambert

Pablo A Arias

Bruce Wagner

A build on-demand chassis with a universal bay system that can be assembled into different configurations to support different system requirements from end users includes positionable partitions and a bay support assembly for each set of devices. A controller communicates with a microcontroller unit (MCU) in each bay support assembly to determine a slot identifier and a type of device supported by the bay support assembly to provide greater flexibility in what configurations are possible. When a processor in the information handling system sends an instruction for a type of device, the controller knows the location and capabilities of the device and manages the communication.

Universal bay chassis and system for self-identification and automatic configuration of an information handling system in the chassis

The present disclosure enables proxied device ownership for a secondary processing system by providing a chassis housing a plurality of devices, a secondary processing system, and a central processing system that includes an integrated switch device that is coupled to each of the plurality of devices and the secondary processing system. The central processing system enter a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) mode in which the central processing system provides a BIOS that is configured to execute instructions and, using the BIOS, receives a transaction that was generated by the secondary processing system and that is directed to a first device that is include in the plurality of devices, and executes the transaction on the first device.

Secondary processor proxied device ownership system

An equipment rack that includes a modular compute chassis, a modular processing unit located in the modular compute chassis and where the modular processing unit is configured to remove from the front of the modular compute chassis in a frontward direction, relative to the front side of the modular compute chassis, and an air mover unit located in the modular processing unit and where the air mover unit is configured to remove from a rear side of the modular processing unit in a rearward direction, relative to the front side of modular compute chassis.

Modular removable air mover for dual access

An intra-chassis device multi-management domain system includes a chassis housing a host processing system connected to first device(s), a secondary processing system connected to second device(s), and a management system connected to the first and second device(s). The management system may receive a first request for management access including first management domain access credentials, determine that the first management domain access credentials allow first access to a host domain associated with the host processing system and, in response, provide the first access to the first device(s) connected to the host processing system. The management system may also receive a second request for management access that includes second management domain access credentials, determine that the second management domain access credentials allow second access to a secondary domain associated with the secondary processing system and, in response, provide the second access to the second device(s) connected to the secondary processing system.

Intra-chassis device multi-management domain system

A secondary processor device ownership system includes a chassis that houses a plurality of devices, a secondary processing system, and a central processing system that includes an integrated switch device that is coupled to each of the plurality of devices and the secondary processing system. The central processing system is configured to provide a device ownership subsystem that configures the central processing system to own a first subset of the plurality of devices, configures the secondary processing system to own a second subset of the plurality of devices, and hides the second subset of the plurality of devices from at least one application provided by the central processing system.

Secondary processor device ownership system

An SCP data mirroring system includes a chassis housing a central processing system and an SCP subsystem. The SCP subsystem includes an SCP memory system with different priority storage queues each storing a copy of data provided by the central processing system, along with an SCP communication system and an SCP data storage subsystem. During a first time period, the SCP data storage subsystem retrieves a first copy of the data from a first storage queue in the SCP memory system and transmits it via the SCP communication system and through a network for storage on first storage device(s). During a subsequent second time period, the SCP data storage system retrieves a second copy of the data from a lower priority second storage queue in the SCP memory system and transmits it via the SCP communication system and through the network for storage on second storage device(s).

System control processor data mirroring system

An SCP power unavailability data storage system includes a chassis housing a power system, a central processing system, and an SCP subsystem that are coupled together. The SCP subsystem includes a volatile SCP memory system storing data provided by the central processing system, an SCP processing system coupled to the volatile SCP memory system, and an SCP communication system that, when power is unavailable from the power system, utilizes power received via its data/power port(s) and provides that power to the volatile SCP memory system and the SCP processing system. An SCP data storage engine provided by the SCP processing system will, in response to an unavailability of power from the power system, operate using power received via the data/power port(s), retrieve data stored in the volatile SCP memory system, and transmit the data via port(s) on the SCP communication system and through a network for storage on storage device(s).

System control processor power unavailability data storage system

A secondary processor device ownership assignment system includes a chassis that houses devices, a secondary processing system, a central processing system that includes an integrated switch device that is coupled to each of the devices and the secondary processing system, and a device ownership subsystem that is coupled to the central processing system. The device ownership system accesses device information for a subset of the devices that will be owned by the secondary processing system, and configures the device information for the subset of the devices such that the subset of the devices are hidden from an operating system provided by the central processing system. The secondary processing system reconfigures the device information for the subset of the plurality of devices such that the subset of the plurality of devices are accessible by the secondary processing system.

Secondary processor device ownership assignment system

Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to use compute capabilities of a network interface controller (NIC) to broker a secure connection across a network between a target information handling system (e.g., such as a server) and one or more other entities (e.g., such as other information handling systems implementing a cloud service or private network, and/or that are providing other remote service/s across the network). This secure connection may be brokered by the NIC at a hardware level in a manner that is separate from a host programmable integrated circuit of the same target information handling system, and in a way that is agnostic and independent of any host operating system or other logic that is executing on the host programmable integrated circuit of the target information handling system.

Systems and methods using a network interface controller (NIC) to broker a secure remote connection at the hardware layer

A system may include a first device and a second device communicatively coupled to the first device via a communications bus, wherein the communications bus comprises a single clock line for transmission of a clock signal from the first device to the second device, a single frame line for transmission of a frame alignment signal from the first device to the second device, and at least one communications channel for serialized communication of payloads of data between the first device and the second device, wherein the payloads of data have at least two different latencies.

Single- and multi-channel, multi-latency payload bus

A fail-safe power limit (FSPL) can be applied to components that lose communication with a management module (MM) to determine a safe power level at which to operate. The FSPL may be computed by the management module (MM) for the information handling system and distributed to components in the information handling system. By computing a FSPL and transmitting the FSPL to the components, a larger amount of the available power can be used by the components. This allows the components to continue operating at performance levels closer to or equivalent to levels available when the management module (MM) is operating normally. The FSPL may be updated at set times and/or on a periodic schedule such that the FSPL used by the components when communication is lost with the management module (MM) reflects a recent operating state of the components.

Fail-safe power limit (FSPL) for fail-safe power management in information handling systems

Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for receiving a request to switch a mode of an information handling system (IHS) from a multi-socket mode to a multi-single socket mode; in response to receiving the request, placing each socket of the IHS in an auxiliary power state independent of each other; after placing each socket of the IHS in the auxiliary power state, altering parameters of the sockets of the IHS, including: altering CPU straps, power sequencing, reset sequencing, and bus re-direction associated with one or more of the sockets of the IHS; and in response to altering the parameters of the sockets of the IHS, switching the mode of the IHS from the multi-socket mode to the multi-single socket mode such that a processor for each socket is a bootstrap processor.

Adjusting a processing state of an information handling system from multi-socket mode to multi-single socket mode

Apparatuses for direct cabled connections of fabric signals&#x2014;i.e., high-speed data signals exchanged between computer processors and peripheral devices. Specifically, varying apparatus configurations are outlined herein for minimizing, if not eliminating, the routing of these fabric signals through printed circuit boards, which tend to cause signal quality degradation due to phenomena such as the skin effect and dielectric loss.

Apparatus for direct cabled connection of fabric signals

A method and information handling system utilize an enclosure controller connected to a plurality of server modules. The enclosure controller has an enclosure controller processor for obtaining server module video data from a server module of the plurality of server modules. The enclosure controller provides the server module video data for display. At least one parameter of the server module video data is modified to simplify processing of the server module video data in response to detection of an excessive processing burden of the enclosure controller processor.

System and method for providing keyboard, video, and mouse functionality

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Shawn Joel Dube