Automatic server deployment using a pre-provisioned logical volume
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsCharles S. Greenidge, Nigel Cook, Charles L. Hudson, Alexander Kramer
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a server is automatically deployed using a pre-provisioned logical volume LV. A first world wide name WWN1 is associated 320 with a logical volume LV1 associated with a disk array controller 260. A second world wide name WWN1, which is assigned to a server S1, is received 335 at the disk array controller 260. If 340 the first world wide name WWN1 is the same as the second world wide name WWN1, the server S1 is enabled 350 to access the logical volume LV1. The first and second world wide names are not required to be assigned to any server S1, S2 at the time that the first world wide name is associated with the logical volume.
Claims15
A method of automating server deployment using a pre-provisioned logical volume, the method comprising:
- associating a first world wide name with a logical volume associated with a disk array controller;
- receiving at the disk array controller a second world wide name that is assigned to a server;
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- if the first world wide name is the same as the second world wide name, enabling the server to access the logical volume, wherein the first and second world wide names are not required to be assigned to any server at the time that the first world wide name is associated with the logical volume.
A system for automating server deployment using a pre-provisioned logical volume, the system comprising:
- a processor for executing instructions;
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium that the instructions are stored on, wherein the instructions implement
- a world-wide-name-to-server-assignor configured for assigning a first world wide name to a server;
- a world-wide-name-communicator configured for communicating the first world wide name from the server to a disk array controller;
- a logical-volume-accessor configured for accessing a logical volume associated with the disk array controller if the first world wide name is the same as a second world wide name that is associated with the logical volume wherein the first and second world wide names are not required to be assigned to any server at the time that the first world wide name is associated with the logical volume.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer-readable program instructions stored thereon for causing a computer system to perform a method of automating server deployment using a pre-provisioned logical volume, the method comprising:
- assigning a first world wide name to a server;
- communicating the first world wide name from the server to a disk array controller;
- accessing a logical volume associated with the disk array controller if the first world wide name is the same as a second world wide name that is associated with the logical volume, wherein the first and second world wide names are not required to be assigned to any server at the time that the first world wide name is associated with the logical volume.
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