Identification of storage devices during system installation
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPavan Nagesh, Shantanu Joshi, Mahesh Thotadhar, A Ashok Kumar Reddy
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Abstract
In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes: identifying a plurality of storage devices accessible to a node of a computer cluster, the storage devices being identified as not having labels; determining one or more attributes of individual ones of the storage devices; determining, by the node, intended uses of the storage devices based on comparing the determined attributes to attributes defined within a configuration file; and generating labels for the storage devices based in least in part on the determined intended uses; and applying the labels to the storage devices.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of storage devices accessible to a node of a computer cluster, the storage devices being identified as not having labels;
- determining one or more attributes of individual ones of the storage devices;
- determining, by the node, intended uses of the storage devices based on comparing the determined attributes to attributes defined within a configuration file;
- generating labels for the storage devices based in least in part on the determined intended uses;
- and
- applying the labels to the storage devices.
A computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-volatile memory storing computer program code that when executed on the processor causes the processor to execute a process comprising:
- identifying a plurality of storage devices accessible to the computing device, the storage devices being identified as not having labels;
- determining one or more attributes of individual ones of the storage devices;
- determining intended uses of the storage devices based on comparing the determined attributes to attributes defined within a configuration file;
- generating labels for the storage devices based in least in part on the determined intended uses;
- and
- applying the labels to the storage devices.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium encoding instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause a process to be carried out, the process comprising:
- identifying a plurality of storage devices accessible to a node of a computer cluster, the storage devices being identified as not having labels;
- determining one or more attributes of individual ones of the storage devices;
- determining, by the node, intended uses of the storage devices based on comparing the determined attributes to attributes defined within a configuration file;
- generating labels for the storage devices based in least in part on the determined intended uses;
- and
- applying the labels to the storage devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.