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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Thomas Ford, Prosper, TX (US);
John A. Morrison, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael S. Allison, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Richard D. Powers, Highland Village, TX (US);
Thomas Ford, Prosper, TX (US);
John A. Morrison, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Michael S. Allison, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Richard D. Powers, Highland Village, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for subdividing a hard partition of a computer server system into one or more soft partitions using partition management programming installed within firmware of the server system. The partition management firmware may be disposed at least partially on a central service processor and may be programmed to present generic interfaces, so that operating systems do not require modification to interface with the partition management programming.