公开(公告)号：DE60213606D1

公开(公告)日：2006-09-14

申请号：DE60213606

申请日：2002-06-29

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ABBOUD AKRAM ,  BRANTLY MICHAEL ,  BUCHANAN WILLIAM ,  CHIN GERARD ,  CHU SIMON ,  DAYAN ALAN ,  DONOVAN THOMAS ,  GREEN MICHAEL ,  GREEN TIMOTHY ,  HARWOOD FRANK ,  LANGE WILLIAM ,  SHULTZ KARL ,  TIPPETT PAUL BRIAN ,  ZEGGERT WILLIAM PAUL

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/00

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and hard disk configuration for accommodating different sizes of applications during an automatic re-provisioning of an appliance server. The disk drive of the appliance server is partitioned with a system partition, a network operating system (NOS) partition, a float partition, and an images partition. The float partition is utilized to provide additional space to the NOS partition and the images partition, when required. A re-provisioning utility is provided, which initiates both a create image utility and an apply image utility, whereby an image file of a current application and associated operating system is created and a stored image file of a second application is installed on the appliance server. When the apply image utility is initiated, the NOS partition is dynamically extended into the float partition server if the second application requires more space than is provided in the NOS partition. Similarly, when an image file is stored in the images partition and the image file requires more space than is available in the images partition, the images partition is dynamically extended into the float partition.

公开(公告)号：DE60213606T2

公开(公告)日：2007-08-09

申请号：DE60213606

申请日：2002-06-29

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ABBOUD AKRAM ,  BRANTLY MICHAEL ,  BUCHANAN WILLIAM ,  CHIN GERARD ,  CHU SIMON ,  DAYAN ALAN ,  DONOVAN THOMAS ,  GREEN MICHAEL ,  GREEN TIMOTHY ,  HARWOOD FRANK ,  LANGE WILLIAM ,  SHULTZ KARL ,  TIPPETT PAUL BRIAN ,  ZEGGERT WILLIAM PAUL

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/00

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and hard disk configuration for accommodating different sizes of applications during an automatic re-provisioning of an appliance server. The disk drive of the appliance server is partitioned with a system partition, a network operating system (NOS) partition, a float partition, and an images partition. The float partition is utilized to provide additional space to the NOS partition and the images partition, when required. A re-provisioning utility is provided, which initiates both a create image utility and an apply image utility, whereby an image file of a current application and associated operating system is created and a stored image file of a second application is installed on the appliance server. When the apply image utility is initiated, the NOS partition is dynamically extended into the float partition server if the second application requires more space than is provided in the NOS partition. Similarly, when an image file is stored in the images partition and the image file requires more space than is available in the images partition, the images partition is dynamically extended into the float partition.

公开(公告)号：AT335232T

公开(公告)日：2006-08-15

申请号：AT02754800

申请日：2002-06-29

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ABBOUD AKRAM ,  BRANTLY JOHN MICHAEL ,  BUCHANAN WILLIAM ,  CHIN PETER GERARD ,  CHU SIMON ,  DAYAN RICHARD ALAN ,  DONOVAN PETER THOMAS ,  GREEN DAVID MICHAEL ,  GREEN TIMOTHY ,  HARWOOD FRANK ,  LANGE THOMAS WILLIAM ,  SHULTZ KARL ,  TIPPETT PAUL BRIAN ,  ZEGGERT WILLIAM PAUL

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/00

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and hard disk configuration for accommodating different sizes of applications during an automatic re-provisioning of an appliance server. The disk drive of the appliance server is partitioned with a system partition, a network operating system (NOS) partition, a float partition, and an images partition. The float partition is utilized to provide additional space to the NOS partition and the images partition, when required. A re-provisioning utility is provided, which initiates both a create image utility and an apply image utility, whereby an image file of a current application and associated operating system is created and a stored image file of a second application is installed on the appliance server. When the apply image utility is initiated, the NOS partition is dynamically extended into the float partition server if the second application requires more space than is provided in the NOS partition. Similarly, when an image file is stored in the images partition and the image file requires more space than is available in the images partition, the images partition is dynamically extended into the float partition.