Loading patent…
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJeffrey Anderson, Simon Chu, Richard Dayan, Peter Donovan
Estimating the term…
A method and system for remotely booting a plurality of server blades in a BLADECENTER® and for updating each blade without the need for an administrator to access each blade via a separate user identification number and corresponding password. A temporary virtual local area network is created to provide an out-of-band communication channel between a management module and the plurality of server blades. The management module receives and saves the original boot sequence for each server blade and alters each boot sequence such that each server blade begins with a network boot. After receiving an initial transmission over the network containing server blade boot instructions and storing the boot instructions in a temporary boot server, subsequent server blade boot requests from the network are intercepted and the stored boot instructions are re-routed from the temporary boot server to each of the remaining blades in the blade server thus removing the need for repeated boot packet transmission over the network.
A system for remotely booting a plurality of server blades in a first computer network, the system comprising:
A method for remotely booting a plurality of server blades in a first computer network, the method comprising:
A machine readable storage device having stored thereon a computer program for remotely booting a plurality of server blades in a first computer network, the computer program comprising a set of instructions which when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform a method including:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.