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US 2003/0210522 A1Published application
Common boot environment for a modular server system
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsPaul D. Rietze, Bob Whitcombe
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Abstract
A method and apparatus to provision a plurality of server blades from a modular server system with operating system software is described.
Claims30
A modular server system, comprising:
- a midplane having a system management bus and a plurality of blade interfaces;
- a plurality of server blades connected to said blade interfaces, with each server blade having a server blade system management bus connected to said system management bus;
- and
- a storage blade connected to one of said blade interfaces, said storage blade having a storage blade system management bus connected to said system management bus, said storage blade to store operating system (OS) software for said plurality of server blades.
1 more element
A storage blade, comprising:
- a hard disk drive;
- a hard disk drive controller;
- and
- a provisioning module to provision a plurality of server blades with OS software stored on said hard disk drive.
1 more element
A method to provision a plurality of servers, comprising:
- receiving a request to load an operating system (OS) from each of a plurality of server blades;
- determining an identifier for each of said plurality of server blades;
- searching for an OS identifier associated with said server blade identifier;
- retrieving an OS from a storage system using said OS identifier;
- and
- loading each server blade with its retrieved OS.
3 more elements
A method to provision a plurality of servers, comprising:
- creating a connection with a storage blade, said storage blade having a plurality of operating system (OS) software;
- sending a request to provision said server blade with one of said OS software;
- and
- receiving OS software in response to said request.
1 more element
An article comprising:
- a storage medium;
- said storage medium including stored instructions that, when executed by a processor, result in provisioning a plurality of servers by receiving a request to load an operating system (OS) from each of a plurality of server blades, determining an identifier for each of said plurality of server blades, searching for an OS identifier associated with said server blade identifier, retrieving an OS from a storage system using said OS identifier, and loading each server blade with its retrieved OS.
An article comprising:
- a storage medium;
- said storage medium including stored instructions that, when executed by a processor, result in provisioning a plurality of servers by creating a connection with a storage blade, said storage blade having a plurality of operating system (OS) software, sending a request to provision said server blade with one of said OS software, and receiving OS software in response to said request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.