System and Method for Mapping a Logical Drive Status to a Physical Drive Status for Multiple Storage Drives Having Different Storage Technologies within a Server
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsTimothy M. Lambert, Indrani Paul
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Abstract
An information handling system includes a backplane, a storage drive, and a board management controller. The board management controller is configured to discover a physical drive status of the drive from a storage enclosure processor, to receive a logical drive status of the drive, to read a backplane bay identification for the drive from a peripheral connector interface express extender or serial attached small computer system interface chipset logical drive number, and to construct a routing table for the drive to map the logical drive status with the physical drive status of the drive.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a backplane including a storage enclosure processor;
- a storage drive connected to the backplane;
- a software redundant array of independent disks controller connected to the backplane;
- and
- a board management controller in communication with the storage enclosure processor, with the storage drive, and with the software redundant array of independent disks controller, the board management controller configured to discover a physical drive status of the storage drive from the storage enclosure processor, to determine that the software redundant array of independent disks controller supports the storage technology of the storage drive, to receive a logical drive status of the storage drive, to correlate the logical drive status to the software redundant array of independent disks controller, and to construct a routing table for the storage drive to map the logical drive status with the physical drive status.
A method comprising:
- discovering a physical drive status including a backplane slot location, a storage technology, and a physical slot mapping for a drive via a storage enclosure processor;
- determining that a software redundant array of independent disks controller connected to a backplane associated with the drive supports the storage technology of the drive;
- discovering a logical address for the drive;
- correlating the logical drive status to the software redundant array of independent disks controller;
- and
- constructing a routing table for the drive to map the logical drive status with the physical drive status of the drive.
A method comprising:
- re-initializing a drive status of a drive of a software redundant array of independent disks controller;
- discovering a physical drive status including a backplane slot location, a storage technology, and a physical slot mapping for the drive via a storage enclosure processor;
- determining that the software redundant array of independent disks controller connected to a backplane associated with the drive supports the storage technology of the drive;
- discovering a logical address for the drive;
- correlating the logical drive status to the software redundant array of independent disks controller;
- and
- constructing a routing table for the drive to map the logical drive status with the physical drive status of the drive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.