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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
May. 28, 2010
Xinhong (Henry) Zhang, Bothell, WA (US);
Peter H. Benoit, Kirkland, WA (US);
Vinod R. Shankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Lindvall, Seattle, WA (US);
Xinhong (Henry) Zhang, Bothell, WA (US);
Peter H. Benoit, Kirkland, WA (US);
Vinod R. Shankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Lindvall, Seattle, WA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A server instance, which is a collection of LUNs, containing an operating system, any applications and data storage. A processing element is the physical hardware. The combination is a server as normally understood. Templates are used to define server instances and server types to simplify deploying a server instance to a processing element. A graphical user interface provides the templates where the particular storage groups are identified and then server instances are created from lists of operating systems, applications, and available storage. The management service processor is a PXE server and provides the necessary software to identify the components of the processing element and correlate between the processing element and a server instance. The management service processor then automatically provides software to the processing element to allow it correctly boot. The management service processor manages the interconnection of the processing element and the relevant LUNs.