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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2009
Terrence Ladd Yoder, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Dante Vitale, Colfax, CA (US);
Terrence Ladd Yoder, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Dante Vitale, Colfax, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of capturing and restoring an appliance image is described. An appliance image comprising one or more partitions of an appliance is accessed, wherein the appliance is installed at a first location on a first blade. Re-imaging instructions associated with the one or more partitions are received. The re-imaging instructions and a data store comprising a plurality of partition capture tools are compared. Based on the comparing, a captured appliance image is generated by utilizing one or more of the plurality of partition capture tools. Restore instructions to restore a captured appliance image onto a second blade are then received. Captured metadata is then accessed, wherein the captured metadata comprises the captured appliance image and the re-imaging instructions associated with the one or more partitions. Then, the re-imaging instructions are utilized to restore the captured appliance image onto the second blade.