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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
James F. Boland, Iv, Apex, NC (US);
Simon C. Chu, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Gregory W. Dake, Durham, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
James F. Boland, IV, Apex, NC (US);
Simon C. Chu, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Gregory W. Dake, Durham, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Applying firmware updates to servers in a data center, the servers including one or more active servers and a standby server, each server mapped to separate remote computer boot storage, including applying the firmware updates to the standby server; selecting an active server for firmware updating; powering off the selected active server by the system management server; remapping the standby server to the remote computer boot storage for the selected active server; rebooting the standby server from the remote computer boot storage for the selected active server, designating the standby server as an active server; remapping the selected active server to the remote computer boot storage formerly mapped to the standby server; and rebooting the selected active server from the remote boot storage formerly mapped to the standby server, designating the selected active server as a standby server.