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2005-05-17

2005-05-17

Ellis, Kevin L. (Department: 2188)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Shared memory area

Reexamination Certificate

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06895480

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for sharing a boot volume among server blades. The shared boot volume may be a single drive or a RAID volume. The shared boot volume is first partitioned into boot slices. Next, individual boot slices of the shared boot volume are correlated with individual server blades, which share the shared boot volume. When a boot slice is correlated with a server blade, the boot slice is presented to the server blade, and the server blade sees the boot slice and only the boot slice, and owns the boot slice. This correlation is transparent to the OS or applications on a given server blade, because the I/O controller masks all boot slices but the one owned by that server blade. As far as OS and applications are concerned, the server blade just has a single boot slice as a dedicated local drive.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6532538 (2003-03-01), Cronk et al.

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