Dell Products Inc.

Swamy Kadaba Chaluvaiah

David Keith Chalfant

Vaideeswaran Ganesan

Suren Kumar

B Balaji Singh

Murali Manohar Shanmugam

Sundar Dasar

Mark W Shutt

Yu Hsuan Yang

Chih Chao Liu

Methods and systems for managing data for startup purposes in a distributed system are disclosed. The distributed system may include any number of clients operably connected to a storage system via a connection fabric. By virtue of the connection topology, any of the clients may interact with the storage system to gain access to storage resources of the storage system. When a client is provided access to storage resources by the storage system, other clients may not be able to access the storage resources of the storage system.

System and method to manage storage system for startup

An information handling system may perform a quick boot based on a determination that a boot does not require an update to at least one of a firmware and hardware of an information handling system. The information handling system may reboot and may determine whether a boot of the system requires an update to at least one of a firmware and hardware of the information handling system. If the boot does not require an update to the at least one of a firmware and hardware of the information handling system, the information handling system may boot by bypassing one or more basic input/output system (BIOS) power-on self-test (POST) operations.

Information handling system quick boot

A network initialization monitoring system includes a host device coupled to a storage system and a monitoring system via a network, and including an initialization subsystem coupled to ports. During network initialization of the host device via the storage system, the initialization subsystem provides a first instance of a communication protocol for monitored port(s), and provides a second instance of the communication protocol for a monitoring port. During the network initialization of the host device via the storage system, the first instance of the communication protocol provided for each monitored port provides copies of network initialization communications transmitted via that monitored port and the network to the second instance of the communication protocol provided for the monitoring port, and the second instance of the communication protocol provided for the monitoring port provides the copies of the network initialization communications to the monitoring system.

Network initialization monitoring system

An information handling system may reset components logged in a memory of the information handling system. For example, an information handling system may determine components logged in an information handling system memory and may perform a bulk reset of the logged components.

Information handling system adaptive component reset

A baseboard management controller (BMC) of an information handling system may notify an operating system of the information handling system of receipt of a firmware update for a PCI component. The operating system of an information handling system may receive a notification from a BMC of the information handling system, via a basic input/output system (BIOS), of the information handling system that the BMC has received the firmware update. The operating system may halt traffic to the PCI component for which an update has been received, and the update may be applied to the component.

Component firmware update from baseboard management controller

A baseboard management controller (BMC) of an information handling system may generate a signal to cause the information handling system to reload a kernel of an operating system of the information handling system. The BMC may generate a signal for reloading a kernel of an operating system of an information handling system, and the information handling system may reload the operating system kernel.

Kernel reset to recover from operating system errors

A BIOS setting modification system is provided in a computing device. During a computing device runtime for the computing device, an Out-Of-Band (OOB) controller device receives a first BIOS setting modification request and, in response, generates first BIOS setting modification information and causes the transmission of a System Management Interrupt (SMI). During the computing device runtime for the computing device, an SMI handler subsystem in the computing device retrieves, in response to the SMI, the first BIOS setting modification information, either directly from the OOB controller device, or from a storage subsystem in which it was provided by the OOB controller device. The SMI handler subsystem then applies the first BIOS setting modification information to at least one subsystem in the computing device such that a first BIOS setting modification provided by the first BIOS setting modification information takes effect during the computing device runtime for the computing device.

BIOS setting modification system

A processor memory mapped boot system includes a processing system having a processor memory subsystem, and a memory system having at least one memory device. A Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) engine is coupled to the processing system and the memory system, and is configured to begin boot operations and detect a boot memory mode setting for the processor memory subsystem. The BIOS engine configures a memory space that includes the at least one memory device and the processor memory subsystem. In response to detecting the boot memory mode setting, the BIOS engine will configured the processor memory subsystem to provide a first memory region of the memory space. The BIOS engine will then complete boot operations utilizing the processor memory subsystem providing the first memory region of the memory space.

Processor memory mapped boot system

An information handling system includes a dynamic random access memory, and a processor. The dynamic random access memory includes a lower memory portion and multi-channel dynamic random access memory portion. The dynamic random access memory is allocated to operations of a boot process of the information handling system. The processor communicates with the dynamic random access memory. The processor determines whether a fast memory allocation service is detected in the boot process. In response to the fast memory allocation being detected, the processor allocates the multi-channel dynamic random access memory portion of the dynamic random access memory to operations of the boot process.

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