US 2008/0306991 A1 · APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CONFIGURE, FORMAT, AND TEST, A DATA STORAGE SUBSYSTEM PRODUCT

Abstract

An apparatus and method are disclosed to configure, format, and test, a data storage subsystem product. The method supplies a data storage subsystem product comprising one or more host computer ports, a processor, one or more data storage device ports, and one or more data storage devices interconnected to the one or more data storage device ports. The method further supplies a configuration appliance comprising a storage configuration. The method connects the configuration appliance to one of the one or more storage device ports, boots up the data storage subsystem product, discovers the configuration appliance by the data storage subsystem product, imports storage configuration data into the data storage subsystem product, formats the one or more data storage device, and tests the input and output data transfer rates for the data storage subsystem product, wherein the formatting and testing are initiated concurrently.

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Dependent claims

A configuration appliance comprising appliance memory and a computer readable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein to configure, format, and test, a data storage subsystem product, the computer readable program code comprising a series of computer readable program steps to effect:

discovering an interconnected operable data storage subsystem comprising a storage configuration;
creating on said configuration appliance storage configuration data comprising said storage configuration;
discovering an interconnected data storage subsystem product comprising one or more data storage devices;
powering said data storage subsystem product;
exporting said storage configuration data to said data storage subsystem product;
formatting said one or more data storage devices;
verifying the input/output data transfer rates of said data storage subsystem product, wherein said formatting step and said verifying step are initiated concurrently;
wherein said one or more data storage devices are formatted only one time.

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A computer program product encoded in a configuration appliance memory and usable with a programmable computer processor to configure a data storage subsystem product comprising a processor, one or more data storage device ports, one or more data storage devices interconnected to said one or more data storage device ports, comprising:

computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to discover an interconnected operable data storage subsystem comprising a storage configuration;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to create on a configuration appliance storage configuration data comprising said storage configuration;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to discover an interconnected data storage subsystem product comprising one or more data storage devices;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to power said data storage subsystem product;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to export said storage configuration data to said data storage subsystem product;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to format said one or more data storage devices;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to verify the input/output data transfer rates of said data storage subsystem product, wherein said formatting and said verifying are initiated concurrently;
wherein said one or more data storage devices are formatted only one time.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Apparatus and method to configure, format, and test, a data storage subsystem product

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