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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2016
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Shawn Joel Dube, Austin, TX (US);
Tim Lambert, Austin, TX (US);
Surender V. Brahmaroutu, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for management of scalable storage architectures are disclosed. The system includes one or more storage backplanes, each storage backplane configured to interface with one or more hard disk drives. The system includes a baseboard management controller, which includes an interface to communicate with one or more of the storage backplanes and programmable logic configured to detect the presence of one or more hard disk drives in an interfaced storage backplane and control one or more status indicators, wherein each status indicator is related to at least one of the hard disk drives in the interfaced storage backplane.