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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2005
Applicants:
Ken Gary Pomaranski, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew Harvey Barr, Roseville, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ken Gary Pomaranski, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew Harvey Barr, Roseville, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for selecting a primary resource in a redundant subsystem. In one method embodiment, the present invention receives a list of available resources for a redundant subsystem. Additionally, the available resources are tested and results of the testing are generated. Then, the primary resource is selected for the subsystem based on the results of the testing.