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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Robert R. Leyendecker, Austin, TX (US);
Rui An, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An information handling system may include a basic input/output system (BIOS), a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system, a plurality of communications bus root complex ports, and a storage backplane having a plurality of slots configured to receive respective storage resources. The information handling system may be configured to: store, at the management controller, an initial data structure containing a correspondence between the plurality of communications bus root complex ports and the plurality of slots; transmit, from the BIOS to the management controller, information regarding bus numbers for a plurality of enumerated information handling resources coupled to the communications bus; and determine, by the management controller, a correspondence between the bus numbers and the plurality of slots.