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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2010
Dennis R. Goetz, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Gregory B. Pruett, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Linda A. Riedle, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Dennis R. Goetz, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Gregory B. Pruett, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Linda A. Riedle, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for automatically selecting and configuring storage devices according to an abstract partition table definition as part of a scripted operating system installation. The system has a deployment server in data communication with the one or more computers via the communication network. The deployment server has a deployment server storage device and a central processing unit. The deployment server storage device stores an inventory of the computers to which an operating system is to be deployed and a set of partition table requirements defined by one or more qualitative attributes associated with one or more computer storage device partitions. The central processing unit is in communication with the deployment server storage device and executes functions to map the inventory with the set of partition table requirements to create a partition table for each computer to which the operating system is to be deployed.