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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2007
Katherine Barabash, Haifa, IL;
James F. Boland, Iv, Apex, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Irit Loy, Bet Hanania, IL;
William J. Vanca, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Katherine Barabash, Haifa, IL;
James F. Boland, IV, Apex, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Irit Loy, Bet Hanania, IL;
William J. Vanca, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Failover of blade servers in a data center, including powering off by a system management server a failing blade server, the failing blade server characterized by a machine type, the failing blade server mapped to remote computer boot storage administered through a Storage Management Initiative-Specification ('SMI-S') provider; identifying, by the system management server by use of the SMI-S provider from a pool of standby blade servers, a replacement blade server; remapping by the system management server through the SMI-S provider the remote computer boot storage of the failing blade server to the replacement blade server; and powering on the replacement blade server by the system management server.