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- Patent Title: Method and system for non-disruptive host repurposing
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Application No.: US16261242Application Date: 2019-01-29
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Publication No.: US10628146B1Publication Date: 2020-04-21
- Inventor: Ravikanth Chaganti , Rizwan Ali , Dharmesh M. Patel
- Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry
- Main IPC: G06F9/445
- IPC: G06F9/445 ; G06F8/61 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F8/65 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F21/78

Abstract:
A method and system for non-disruptive host repurposing. Specifically, the method and system disclosed herein entail the re-optimization of datacenter hosts (e.g., servers) for any infrastructure and/or workload deployment. Different infrastructure and/or workload deployments may require the tuning of various memory parameters (or attributes) in the basic input-output system (BIOS) configuration. Presently, the repurposing of any given host demands the full reset of the system configuration—i.e., a disruptive process—prior to implementing the necessary BIOS configuration changes. In contrast, the method and system disclosed herein facilitate the repurposing of a host through the installation and/or uninstallation of configuration overlays—a modular approach to interchanging infrastructure and/or workload deployments—without the disruption of full system resets.
Public/Granted literature
- US10747522B1 Method and system for non-disruptive host repurposing Public/Granted day:2020-08-18
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