Granted Patent B2

US 11,243,780 · App. 16/877,761 · Granted Feb 8, 2022

Inventors: Xinghai Yu (Hopkinton, MA); Colin Zou (San Jose, CA)

Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC

G06F9/4408G06F8/61G06F9/4411

Abstract

Claims (30)

1. A computer implemented method for installing an operating system (OS) using a dual-flash device, the method comprising:

burning an OS version to the dual-flash device located on a server;

setting a basic input/output system (BIOS) to boot the server from the dual-flash device;

triggering installation of the OS version on the server from the dual-flash device; and

setting the BIOS to boot from a hard disk of the server after installation of the OS version.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein triggering installation of the OS version from the dual-flash device includes installing the OS version to the hard disk of the server.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein setting BIOS to boot from the hard disk of the server after installation of the OS version is performed automatically by a PTagent module.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein burning the OS version to the dual-flash device is performed via a baseboard management controller (BMC) in connection with a user device.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein burning the OS version to the dual-flash device is performed by physically removing the dual-flash device from the server.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the dual-flash device is a mirrored Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM).

7. A system for installing an operating system (OS) using a dual-flash device, comprising:

a server;

a dual-flash device located on the server, wherein the dual-flash device includes an OS version saved thereon, and a basic input/output system (BIOS) of the server are set to boot from the dual-flash device;

an OS installation module located on the server and configured to trigger installation of the OS version from the dual-flash device; and

a PTagent module configured to set the BIOS of the server to boot from a hard disk of the server after installation of the OS version.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the OS installation module installs the OS version from the dual-flash device to the hard disk of the server.

9. The system of claim 7 , further comprising a baseboard management controller (BMC) for burning the OS version to the dual-flash device.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the BMC is configured to connect with a user device for burning the OS version to the dual-flash device.

11. The system of claim 7 , wherein the dual-flash device is removable from the server in order to burn the OS version to the dual-flash device.

12. The system of claim 7 , wherein the dual-flash device is a mirrored Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM).

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform an operating system (OS) installation operation using a dual-flash device, the operation comprising:

burning an OS version to the dual-flash device located on a server;

setting a basic input/output system (BIOS) to boot the server from the dual-flash device;

triggering installation of the OS version on the server from the dual-flash device; and

setting the BIOS to boot from a hard disk of the server after installation of the OS version.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein triggering installation of the OS version from the dual-flash device includes installing the OS version to the hard disk of the server.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein setting BIOS to boot from the hard disk of the server after installation of the OS version is performed automatically by a PTagent module.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein burning the OS version to the dual-flash device is performed via a baseboard management controller (BMC) in connection with a user device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein burning the OS version to the dual-flash device is performed by physically removing the dual-flash device from the server.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the dual-flash device is a mirrored Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM).

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