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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWilliam Gavin Holland, Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam, Gregg Steven Lucas
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A method of configuring a blade enclosure is provided in which, in a first step, slots are identified whose SAS connectors are to be connected to SAS device blades in a minimum capacity configuration. In a second step, slots are identified whose SAS connectors are to be connected to the SAS device blades in a maximum capacity configuration. A path is then established from the SAS switch to the SAS connector of each slot identified in either the first step or the second step. Blade devices, such as RAID controller blades and disk enclosure blades are installed in the identified slots. Thus, the SAS switch within the enclosure selectively and efficiently interfaces with a predetermined number of blade slots rather than with all slots.
A blade enclosure, comprising:
A method of configuring a blade enclosure, the blade enclosure having a serial attached SCSI (SAS) switch and a plurality of blade slots, each slot including a fibre channel (FC) connector to which an FC device blade is connectable and an SAS connector to which an SAS device blade is connectable, the method comprising:
A computer program product being a computer readable storage medium usable with a programmable computer, the computer program product having computer-readable code embodied therein for configuring a blade enclosure, the blade enclosure having a serial attached SCSI (SAS) switch and a plurality of blade slots, each blade slot including a fibre channel (FC) connector to which an FC device blade is connectable and an SAS connector to which an SAS device blade is connectable, the computer-readable code comprising instructions for:
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