Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Provisioning a bare-metal server
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Application No.: US15337791Application Date: 2016-10-28
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Publication No.: US10348813B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Bulent Abali , Paul G. Crumley , Hubertus Franke , Chung-Sheng Li
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Intelletek Law Group, PLLC
- Agent Gabriel Daniel, Esq
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
A method and device for provisioning bare-metal servers to tenants of a cloud provider is provided. The cloud provider operating a datacenter receives a profile of a tenant. The cloud provider identifies a set of physical resources subscribed by the tenant based on the tenant's profile and identifies a bare-metal server in the datacenter having sufficient physical resources to provide the subscribed physical resources. The cloud center reports to the tenant a set of physical resources in the BM server that corresponds to the subscribed set of physical resources. The cloud center receives a request from the tenant to provision a tenant bare metal machine in the datacenter. The cloud center enables at least one of the reported physical resources in the bare-metal server for the tenant, based on the request, and disables remaining reported physical resources in the bare-metal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180124163A1 PROVISIONING A BARE-METAL SERVER Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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