Granted Patent B2

US 11,687,280 · App. 17/160,609 · Granted Jun 27, 2023

Inventors: Walter A. O'Brien, III (Westborough, MA); Doron Tal (Geva Carmel, IL); Rivka Mayraz Matosevich (Zichron Ya'acov, IL)

Assignee: Dell Products L.P.

G06F3/0659G06F3/0611G06F3/0673

Abstract

Claims (66)

1. A system for managing storage of data in composed information handling systems, comprising:

storage for storing storage information; and

a system control processor manager programmed to:

obtain a composition request for a composed information handling system;

identify at least one compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request;

identify at least one hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request, wherein the hardware resources comprise a local device for storing data and a local data processor adapted to service writes using the local device and at least one remote device;

setup storage management services for managing writes of data to the at least one hardware resource set using an at least one control resource set and the at least one compute resource set to obtain logical hardware resources,

wherein:

the local data processor is programmed to preferentially service the writes of the data using the local device rather than the at least one remote device;

setting up the storage management services comprises:

preparing at least one compute resource of the compute resource set to execute a target agent to perform storage management services based on storage information, wherein the at least one compute resource comprises the local data processor; and

preparing the at least one control resource set to generate and maintain storage information associated with the at least one hardware resource set;

the target agent is programmed to:

obtain a storage request of data from an application of applications executing on the at least one compute resource set;

in response to obtaining the storage request:

 obtain storage information associated with the at least one hardware resource set;

 identify a storage resource of the at least one hardware resource set to service the storage request; and

 write the data to the identified storage resource; and

present the logical hardware resources using the at least one control resource set to the at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate a composed information handling system to service the composition request.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein performing at least a portion of the storage management services is transparent to at least a portion of applications executing on the at least one compute resource set.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the storage information specifies storage utilization and storage availability of storages resources of the at least one hardware resource set; wherein the storage resources comprise the local device and the at least one remote device.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the application is associated with the target agent.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the application is associated with an unavailable target agent.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the storage information is obtained from the at least one control resource set.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one control resource set comprises a system control processor.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the system control processor is programmed to:

identify available storage resources of the at least one hardware resource set;

identify storage utilization of the available storage resources;

generate storage information based on the available storage resources and the storage utilization; and

send the storage information to the target agent.

9. A method for managing storage of data in composed information handling systems, comprising:

obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system;

identifying at least one compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request;

identifying at least one hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request, wherein the hardware resources comprise a local device for storing data and a local data processor adapted to service writes using the local device and at least one remote device;

setting up storage management services for managing writes of data to the at least one hardware resource set using an at least one control resource set and the at least one compute resource set to obtain logical hardware resources, wherein:

the local data processor is programmed to preferentially service the writes of the data using the local device rather than the at least one remote device;

setting up the storage management services comprises:

preparing at least one compute resource of the compute resource set to execute a target agent to perform storage management services based on storage information, wherein the at least one compute resource comprises the local data processor; and

preparing the at least one control resource set to generate and maintain storage information associated with the at least one hardware resource set;

the target agent is programmed to:

obtain a storage request of data from an application of applications executing on the at least one compute resource set;

in response to obtaining the storage request:

obtain storage information associated with the at least one hardware resource set;

identify a storage resource of the at least one hardware resource set to service the storage request; and

write the data to the identified storage resource; and

presenting the logical hardware resources using the at least one control resource set to the at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate a composed information handling system to service the composition request.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein performing at least a portion of the storage management services is transparent to at least a portion of applications executing on the at least one compute resource set.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the storage information specifies storage utilization and storage availability of storages resources of the at least one hardware resource set; wherein the storage resources comprise the local device and the at least one remote device.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for managing storage of data in composed information handling systems, the method comprising:

obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system;

identifying at least one compute resource set having compute resources specified by the composition request;

identifying at least one hardware resource set having hardware resources specified by the composition request, wherein the hardware resources comprise a local device for storing data and a local data processor adapted to service writes using the local device and at least one remote device;

setting up storage management services for managing writes of data to the at least one hardware resource set using an at least one control resource set and the at least one compute resource set to obtain logical hardware resources, wherein:

the local data processor is programmed to preferentially service the writes of the data using the local device rather than the at least one remote device;

setting up the storage management services comprises:

preparing at least one compute resource of the compute resource set to execute a target agent to perform storage management services based on storage information, wherein the at least one compute resource comprises the local data processor; and

preparing the at least one control resource set to generate and maintain storage information associated with the at least one hardware resource set;

the target agent is programmed to:

obtain a storage request of data from an application of applications executing on the at least one compute resource set;

in response to obtaining the storage request:

 obtain storage information associated with the at least one hardware resource set;

 identify a storage resource of the at least one hardware resource set to service the storage request; and

 write the data to the identified storage resource; and

presenting the logical hardware resources using the at least one control resource set to the at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources to instantiate a composed information handling system to service the composition request.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 , wherein performing at least a portion of the storage management services is transparent to at least a portion of applications executing on the at least one compute resource set.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the storage information specifies storage utilization and storage availability of storages resources of the at least one hardware resource set; wherein the storage resources comprise the local device and the at least one remote device.

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