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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2023
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael Albert Perks, Austin, TX (US);
Ramesha He, Bangalore, IN;
Faizal Sn, Bangalore, IN;
Bharath Koushik Bangalore Suryanarayana, Bangalore, IN;
Syama Sundar Poluri, Round Rock, TX (US);
Krishnaprasad Koladi, Bengaluru, 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 may be updated using management resources of a chassis in which the witness sled is installed. A chassis may include data storage devices and Information Handling Systems (IHSs), each including one or more CPUs (Central Processing Units) configured to cause each respective IHS to store data redundantly to the data storage devices, such as part of a vSAN (Virtual Storage Area Network). The chassis also includes a witness sled configured to provide witness functions, such as to arbitrate discrepancies in the redundantly stored data. The chassis may further include a chassis management controller that receives updates to the witness sled, such as to the witness sled operating system. The update is deconflicted with any pending updates and is transmitted to the witness sled while accounting for the limited resources of the compute sled.