Dell Products Inc.

Sujit Jadhav

Raveendra Babu Madala

Santosh Hanamant Gore

Anusha Bhaskar

Muniswamy Setty K S

Chandrashekar Nelogal

A system for managing distributed data storage drives is disclosed that includes a plurality of computing devices, a plurality of data storage devices and an update system configured to determine whether one of the plurality of storage devices is associated with one of the plurality of computing devices, and to implement a firmware update to the storage device only if the storage device is not associated with one of the plurality of computing devices.

Method for updating firmware of unassigned drives

An information handling system includes product lifecycle management circuitry and a management controller. The product lifecycle management circuitry receives an indication that a first firmware update package is to be demoted, starts a demotion process for the first firmware update package, and removes the first firmware update package from being available on an Internet website. The management controller extracts a first identifier for the first firmware update package, determines a first context in which the first firmware update package is being demoted, and publishes the first identifier and the first context in an exclusion catalog.

Information handling system to treat demoted firmware with replacement firmware

A serial attached small computer system interface system improves shared device firmware version consistency. The system includes servers connected to one of a plurality of controllers, and an expander connected to each of the controllers. A shared device connected to the expander receives a command from a server to be executed at the shared device, and transmits a first broadcast asynchronous event to the expander. The shared device is a serial attached small computer system interface target, and the first broadcast asynchronous event identifies a configuration change in the serial attached small computer system interface target. The expander, in response to receiving the first broadcast asynchronous event, transmits a second broadcast asynchronous event to the controllers. The controllers, in response to receiving the second broadcast asynchronous event, transmits an inquiry command to the serial attached small computer system interface target to determine the configuration change in the serial attached small computer system interface target, and generates an asynchronous event notification. The servers update a firmware version entry in an extensible firmware interface system resource table with a current firmware version of the target in response to the asynchronous event notification.

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Sujit Jadhav