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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2004
Sriram Krishnan, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Andreas Bauer, Boxborough, MA (US);
Greg W. Lazar, Upton, MA (US);
Sriram Krishnan, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Andreas Bauer, Boxborough, MA (US);
Greg W. Lazar, Upton, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods for initializing a storage system over a network are described. A server initialization utility operates on each of several storage processing units. A client initialization utility operates on a client computing device. The client initialization utility and server initialization utility communicate via a network coupled to the client computing device and the storage processing units. The client initialization utility is used to initialize parameters for each storage processing unit via communication with the corresponding server initialization utility. The client initialization utility is further used to discover array and storage processing identification information. The client and server initialization utilities communicate via exchange of UDP broadcast datagrams.