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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2023
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael Albert Perks, Austin, TX (US);
Ramesha He, Bangalore, IN;
Krishnaprasad Koladi, Bengaluru, IN;
Bharath Koushik Bangalore Suryanarayana, Bangalore, IN;
Syama Sundar Poluri, Round Rock, TX (US);
Faizal Sn, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods provide witness sled hardware that may be installed in a chassis and that is configurable using management resources of a chassis in which the witness sled is installed. The chassis may include data storage devices and Information Handling Systems (IHSs), each including one or more CPUs (Central Processing Units) that execute instructions that cause a respective IHS to store data redundantly to the plurality of data storage devices, such as part of a vSAN (Virtual Storage Area Network). The witness sled is configured to provide witness functions, such as arbitrating discrepancies in the redundantly stored data. The chassis includes a management controller that is configured to interface with the witness sled to set up high-speed network connections supported by the witness sled in order to configure the witness sled for providing witness functions within the vSAN, while accounting for the limited resources of the compute sled.