Invention Grant
US07664945B2 Computer system for booting a diskless server after a fault by reading a boot loader from a maintenance logical unit and identifying a boot file based on identifier of diskless server
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用于通过从维护逻辑单元读取引导加载程序并在基于无盘服务器的标识符的情况下识别引导文件的故障后引导无盘服务器的计算机系统
- Patent Title: Computer system for booting a diskless server after a fault by reading a boot loader from a maintenance logical unit and identifying a boot file based on identifier of diskless server
- Patent Title (中): 用于通过从维护逻辑单元读取引导加载程序并在基于无盘服务器的标识符的情况下识别引导文件的故障后引导无盘服务器的计算机系统
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Application No.: US12186407Application Date: 2008-08-05
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Publication No.: US07664945B2Publication Date: 2010-02-16
- Inventor: Hitoshi Ueno , Kouji Masuda
- Applicant: Hitoshi Ueno , Kouji Masuda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
- Priority: JP2005-078366 20050318
- Main IPC: G06F15/177
- IPC: G06F15/177

Abstract:
In investigating the cause of a fault in a computer storage system, it is considered useful to previously prepare maintenance logical units (LUs) of a simple structure, the operation of which has been confirmed. If the same number of LUs as servers are prepared for each server as in the prior art, the efficiency is low. Furthermore, securing these LUs complicates assignment of the LUs for construction of a system and a work for addressing the fault. The present invention provides a computer system free of these problems. The computer system has a first computer for executing a first OS (operating system), a second computer for executing a second OS, and a storage array system. The storage array system uses a disk device having a logical unit (LU) for storing a boot loader, as well as the first and second OSes. The boot loader is executed on any one of the two computers, reads in any of the OSes corresponding to the currently operating computer into this operating computer, and executes the read OS.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080307216A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOOTING A COMPUTER SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2008-12-11
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