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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Seth B. Horan, Wrentham, MA (US);
Kendra Marchant, Arlington, MA (US);
Domenic Joseph LaRosa, Atkinson, NH (US);
Michael Richard Turco, Uxbridge, MA (US);
Nidhish Chandran Ramachandran, Kerala, IN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method includes (a) receiving from several different storage systems, several discovery packets, each different type of system having a different minimal amount of configuration information required to initialize, (b) displaying an identifier for each system from which a discovery packet was received, (c) receiving a selection of a particular system, (d) determining which type of system the selected system is, each type being associated with a distinct set of initialization parameter selection choices reflecting the minimal amount of configuration information required to initialize a system of that type, (e) displaying the initialization parameter selection choices associated with the determined type of system, (f) receiving initialization parameter selections responsive to the displayed initialization parameter selection choices, and (g) sending an initialization command to the selected particular system including the received initialization parameter selections to allow the selected particular system to be properly initialized.