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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
May. 29, 2009
Michael Paul Dehaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Bradford E. Hinson, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Laska, Cary, NC (US);
Robert Justin Payne, Cedar Grove, NC (US);
Brandon Perkins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Paul DeHaan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Bradford E. Hinson, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Laska, Cary, NC (US);
Robert Justin Payne, Cedar Grove, NC (US);
Brandon Perkins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the management of mainframe resources in a pre-boot environment. According to embodiments, a network management platform, for instance a platform equipped or compatible with pre-boot discovery and management tools such as the known pre-boot execution environment (PXE), can integrate a set of mainframe-based virtual machines using a pre-boot management engine. The pre-boot management engine can reside in or communicate with the mainframe operating system, and present a set of resources to the network management platform to allow the platform to include time-sliced or other virtual machines or resources, into the pre-boot protocol. According to embodiments, for instance, the set of virtual machines can be assigned temporary or pseudo media access control (MAC) or other hardware identifiers, so that the network management platform can view individual mainframe-based virtual machines as having a network connection and thereby receive similar boot commands to hardware-based client machines.