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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAntonio Abbondanzio, William W. Buchanan JR., Simon Chu, Gregory William Dake, Stephen Woodrow Murphrey, William Jospeh Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David Benson Rhoades
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This invention is useful in a networked system with densely packaged servers or server blades. The servers are connected to a system management network, a communication network and an image server. A management module attached to the system management network and a network switch monitors and controls network booting from an image server on the communication network to prevent over commitment of network and image server resources in order to avoid a boot storm. The management module collects system information and calculates the number of servers or clients the networked system can boot at any one instant of time without burdening the system. The management module logic controls booting via the system management network and service processor elements, which can block server booting and release servers to boot when other servers have completed their boot process.
A network, comprising:
An assembly of clients, for use with an image server, said assembly comprising:
A method for controlling the downloading of images from an image server to a plurality of clients, comprising the steps of:
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