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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Joseph A. Perry, Sutton, MA (US);
Vasudevan Subramanian, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Dazhi Dong, Shanghai, CN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computing system for synchronizing system software between a new storage appliance and a storage cluster having one or more pre-existing appliances. The synchronization process includes: determining a software version used by the pre-existing storage appliances in the storage cluster, determining a software version used by the new storage appliance to be added to the storage cluster, and comparing the software version used by the pre-existing storage appliances to the software version used by the new storage appliance. Moreover, in response to determining that the software version used by the new storage appliance is more recent than the software version used by the pre-existing storage appliances, the synchronization process performs a hardware check on the new storage appliance for hardware compatibility with the software version used by the pre-existing storage appliances.