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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2011
Gregory L. Huff, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Timothy E. Hoglund, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Brad D. Besmer, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Mark J. Jander, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Edward F. Marchand, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jason C. Mcginley, Castle Rock, CO (US);
Gregory L. Huff, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Timothy E. Hoglund, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Brad D. Besmer, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Mark J. Jander, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Edward F. Marchand, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jason C. McGinley, Castle Rock, CO (US);
LSI Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a boot appliance for a data storage system. The boot appliance is a self-contained, pre-configured device that serves as a boot device for multiple servers. The boot appliance contains multiple hard drives which are configured into one or more RAID volumes. Each volume is divided into multiple partitions, with each partition serving as the boot drive for any server connected to it. The boot appliance provides its own environmental controls and Ethernet connection which may be used for providing alerts regarding the health of the components of the boot appliance and/or data storage system to a monitoring system, such as a network management system. The boot appliance may provide a boot drive and operating system image to multiple servers at the same time.