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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Applicants:
Ying Guo, Northborough, MA (US);
Qing Liu, Grafton, MA (US);
Kevin Richards, Attleboro, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/76 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for pre-execution environment (PXE) booting a storage processor from a peer storage processor allows for the ability to reboot and/or restart the storage processor without an externally connected PXE server. In response to a reboot request of the storage processor, the peer storage processor pushes an operating system boot image and/or other information to the storage processor for PXE booting the storage processor, and vice versa. The system may also operate with multiple coupled computers.