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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Lsi Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Brett J. Henning, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Scott W. Dominguez, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Jason C. McGinley, Castle Rock, CO (US);
LSI Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A boot appliance for writing data to a particular host system's boot image and returning boot image data to a particular host system of a plurality of host systems. The boot appliance includes at least one storage medium, wherein the at least one storage medium is configured to store a base boot image and a plurality of variance boot images. The boot appliance further includes a buffer. The base boot appliance also includes a computer readable medium embodying computer code configured to cause the boot appliance to perform a method for writing data to a particular host system's boot image and for returning boot image data to a particular host system of a plurality of host systems.