Failover of blade servers in a data center

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2011-05-17

2011-05-17

Tran, Vincent T (Department: 2115)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Reconfiguration

C714S002000, C714S003000, C714S004110, C714S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07945773

ABSTRACT:
Failover of blade servers in a data center, including powering off by a system management server a failing blade server, the failing blade server characterized by a machine type, the failing blade server mapped to remote computer boot storage administered through a Storage Management Initiative-Specification (‘SMI-S’) provider; identifying, by the system management server by use of the SMI-S provider from a pool of standby blade servers, a replacement blade server; remapping by the system management server through the SMI-S provider the remote computer boot storage of the failing blade server to the replacement blade server; and powering on the replacement blade server by the system management server.

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