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Patent No.:

US 11635969 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2020

Systems and methods to update add-on cards firmware and collect hardware information on any servers with any os installed or bare-metal servers

Applicant:

Hitachi Vantara Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Francis Kin-Wing Hong, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Arturo Cruz, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Liren Zhao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

HITACHI VANTARA LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Primary Examiner:

Cheng Yuan Tseng

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 9/5044 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); G06F 9/541 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods described herein are directed to upgrading one or more of add-on firmware and disk firmware for a server, which can involve connecting a port of the server to an isolated network, the isolated network dedicated to firmware upgrades for the server; caching onto cache memory of the server, an operating system received through the isolated network; booting the operating system on the server from the cache memory; conducting an Network File System (NFS) mount on the server to determine hardware information associated with the upgrading of the one or more of the add-on firmware and the disk firmware; and upgrading the one or more of the add-on firmware and the disk firmware based on the hardware information.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Hong, Francis Kin-Wing. (2023). Systems and methods to update add-on cards firmware and collect hardware information on any servers with any os installed or bare-metal servers (U.S. Patent No. 11635969). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11635969

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