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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Franck Excoffier, Tucson, AZ (US);
Michael P. Groover, Vail, AZ (US);
Xu Han, Lincoln, CA (US);
Andreas B. M. Koster, Vail, AZ (US);
Edward H. Lin, Tucson, AZ (US);
Mario Sweeney, Oregon City, OR (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments for providing an update to at least one storage facility in a computing storage environment are provided. In one embodiment, media is received in one or more updatable elements of one or more components of the at least one storage facility, each of the one or more updatable elements including one or more unique update images and one or more unique update commands, a security verification is performed on the update via a certificate authentication mechanism to confirm a validity of the update, a safety verification is performed on the update to confirm a suitability of the update to the at least one storage facility, the update is installed in the at least one storage facility, and the update in the at least one storage facility is processed by traversing a fixed state machine for each updatable element.