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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jun Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Yun Sun, Shanghai, CN;
Yufang Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Hongbo Geng, Shanghai, CN;
Dongye Yang, Shanghai, CN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed systems and methods may include booting a first node of a multi-node cluster from an attached storage medium, e.g., a USB drive, into a bootstrap OS. The bootstrap OS may initiate PXE and file share services on the first node. Disclosed features may copy one or more software bundles for a target OS from the attached storage medium to persistent storage in the first node. The method may further include PXE booting one or more other nodes of the multi-node cluster into the bootstrap OS and connecting one or more of the other nodes to the first node via a high speed switch. One or more software bundles, including software for a targeted OS, may be copied from the persistent store to at least one of the one or more other nodes via the high speed switch.