Programmatic instantiation, provisioning, and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers

A system is taught in which a module having processing elements can access network and storage interfaces that are external to the module of the processing elements as though those interfaces were located internal to the module of the processing elements. The system may be operated as one or more pr...

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Main Authors Saraiya, Nakul Pratap, Collins, Curtis M, Finkelstein, Yuri, Lovett, Thomas Dean, Mittur, Shyam, Nicolaou, Cosmos, Shah, Shreyas B, Ingrao, Fabio Onofrio
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.07.2011
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Summary:A system is taught in which a module having processing elements can access network and storage interfaces that are external to the module of the processing elements as though those interfaces were located internal to the module of the processing elements. The system may be operated as one or more provisioned servers, each of the provisioned servers including capabilities as identified by a corresponding set of specifications and attributes, according to various embodiments. Typically the specifications (or constraints) and attributes are specified with a Server Configuration File. An Enterprise Server system may be provisioned into any combination and number of servers according to needed processing and I/O capabilities. Each of these servers may include distinct compute, storage, and networking performance. Provisioned servers may be managed similar to conventional servers, including operations such as boot and shutting down.