LCS resource device utilization system

An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:

• an orchestrator processing system that is coupled between a Bare Metal Server (BMS) processing system in a BMS system and a plurality of resource devices, wherein some of the plurality of resource devices are included in the BMS system, and some of the plurality of resource devices are coupled to the BMS system via a network;
• and
• an orchestrator memory system that is coupled to the orchestrator processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the orchestrator processing system, cause the orchestrator processing system to provide an orchestrator engine that is configured to:
• receive a Logically Composed System (LCS) provisioning instruction to provide an LCS using a subset of a plurality of resource devices that includes at least one of the plurality of resource devices that are included in the BMS system, and at least one of the plurality of resource devices that are coupled to the BMS system via the network;
• program, for each of the subset of the plurality of resource devices, the orchestrator memory system with respective configuration information for that resource device that provides a respective emulated resource device for that resource device and that includes:
• emulated resource device registers that are configured for use in emulating operation of that resource device to the processing system;
• and
• emulated resource device mapping information that maps that respective emulated resource device to that resource device;
• provide, for each respective emulated resource device, a respective PCIe virtual function;
• emulate, using a PCIe type 1 function that is coupled to the orchestrator processing system and that is connected to a root port on the BMS processing system, at least one emulated switch device including a plurality of emulated ports to an operating system provided for the LCS using the BMS processing system and the BMS memory system in the BMS system;
• emulate, for each of the subset of the plurality of resource devices, a respective hot plug event for the operating system, wherein each respective hot plug event occurs between the PCIe virtual function provided for that respective emulated resource device and a respective one of the plurality of emulated ports on the at least one emulated switch device;
• receive an LCS stop provisioning instruction to stop providing the LCS;
• and
• emulate, for each of the subset of the plurality of resource devices in response to receiving the LCS stop provisioning instruction, a respective hot removal event for the operating system, wherein each respective hot removal event occurs between the PCIe virtual function provided for that respective emulated resource device and the respective one of the plurality of emulated ports on the at least one emulated switch device.

A method for utilization resource devices with a Logically Composed System (LCS), comprising:

• receiving, by an orchestrator device that is coupled between a Bare Metal Server (BMS) processing system in a BMS system and a plurality of resource devices, a Logically Composed System (LCS) provisioning instruction to provide an LCS using a subset of the plurality of resource devices that includes at least one of the plurality of resource devices that is included in the BMS system, and at least one of the plurality of resource devices that is coupled to the BMS system via a network;
• programming, by the orchestrator device for each of the subset of the plurality of resource devices, an orchestrator memory system in the orchestrator device with respective configuration information for that resource device that provides a respective emulated resource device for that resource devices and that includes:
• emulated resource device registers that are configured for use in emulating operation of that resource device to the processing system;
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• emulated resource device mapping information that maps that respective emulated resource device to that resource device;
• providing, by the orchestrator device for each respective emulated resource device, a respective PCIe virtual function;
• emulating, by the orchestrator device using a PCIe type 1 function that is connected to a root port on the BMS processing system, at least one emulated switch device including a plurality of emulated ports to an operating system provided for the LCS using the BMS processing system and the BMS memory system in the BMS system;
• emulating, by the orchestrator device for each of the subset of the plurality of resource devices, a respective hot plug event for the operating system, wherein each respective hot plug event occurs between the PCIe virtual function provided for that respective emulated resource device and a respective one of the plurality of emulated ports on the at least one emulated switch device;
• receiving, by the orchestrator device, an LCS stop provisioning instruction to stop providing the LCS;
• and
• emulating, by the orchestrator device for each of the subset of the plurality of resource devices in response to receiving the LCS stop provisioning instruction, a respective hot removal event for the operating system, wherein each respective hot removal event occurs between the PCIe virtual function provided for that respective emulated resource device and the respective one of the plurality of emulated ports on the at least one emulated switch device.