Granted Patent B2

US 11,947,697 · App. 17/382,886 · Granted Apr 2, 2024

Inventors: William Price Dawkins (Lakeway, TX); Valerie Diane Padilla (Austin, TX); Jon Robert Hass (Austin, TX); Sudhir Vittal Shetty (Cedar Park, TX)

Assignee: Dell Products L.P.

G06F21/6218G06F9/5022G06F9/5055G06F21/602G06F2221/2143

Abstract

Claims (56)

1. A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems, comprising:

persistent storage; and

a system control processor manager programmed to:

receive a request to decompose a composed information handling system, wherein the composed information handling system comprises a hardware resource and a second hardware resource;

obtain a cleaning requirement for the hardware resource;

initiate, based on the cleaning requirement, a cleaning operation on the hardware resource;

receive a confirmation that the cleaning operation is complete;

after receiving the confirmation, set a state of the hardware resource to allocatable;

obtain a configuration of the second hardware resource;

determine that the configuration does not match a default configuration of the second hardware resource;

in response the determination, initiation modification of the configuration of the second hardware resource to match the default configuration;

after the configuration of the second hardware resource matches the default configuration, set a state of the second hardware resource to allocatable.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second hardware resource is a graphics processing unit.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the hardware resource is a storage device.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the cleaning operation comprises issuing a command to the hardware resource to delete a stored encryption key on the storage device, wherein all user data stored on the storage device is encrypted using the stored encryption key.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cleaning operation renders all user data on the hardware resource unreadable.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein initiating the cleaning operation on the hardware resource comprises:

initiating a connection between the hardware resource and a cleaning service; and

instructing the cleaning service to perform the cleaning operation on the hardware resource.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein initiating the cleaning operation on the hardware resource comprises:

composing a second composed information handling system, wherein a cleaning service is executing on the second composed information handling system;

initiating a connection between the hardware resource and a cleaning service; and

instructing the cleaning service to perform the cleaning operation on the hardware resource.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein initiating the cleaning operation on the hardware resource occurs after the hardware resource has transition from an allocated state to a cleaning state, wherein a system control processor in the composed information handling system facilitates the transition of the hardware resource from the allocated state to the cleaning state.

9. A method for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems, comprising:

receiving a request to decompose a composed information handling system, wherein the composed information handling system comprises a hardware resource and a second hardware resource;

obtaining a cleaning requirement for the hardware resource;

initiating, based on the cleaning requirement, a cleaning operation on the hardware resource;

receiving a confirmation that the cleaning operation is complete;

after receiving the confirmation, setting a state of the hardware resource to allocatable;

obtaining a configuration of the second hardware resource;

determining that the configuration does not match a default configuration of the second hardware resource;

in response the determination, initiating modification of the configuration of the second hardware resource to match the default configuration; and

after the configuration of the second hardware resource matches the default configuration, setting a state of the second hardware resource to allocatable.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the second hardware resource is a graphics processing unit.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the hardware resource is a storage device.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the cleaning operation comprises issuing a command to the hardware resource to delete a stored encryption key on the storage device, wherein all user data stored on the storage device is encrypted using the stored encryption key.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the cleaning operation renders all user data on the hardware resource unreadable.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein initiating the cleaning operation on the hardware resource comprises:

initiating a connection between the hardware resource and a cleaning service; and

instructing the cleaning service to perform the cleaning operation on the hardware resource.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein initiating the cleaning operation on the hardware resource comprises:

composing a second composed information handling system, wherein a cleaning service is executing on the second composed information handling system;

initiating a connection between the hardware resource and a cleaning service; and

instructing the cleaning service to perform the cleaning operation on the hardware resource.

16. The method of claim 9 , wherein initiating the cleaning operation on the hardware resource occurs after the hardware resource has transition from an allocated state to a cleaning state, wherein a system control processor in the composed information handling system facilitates the transition of the hardware resource from the allocated state to the cleaning state.

17. 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 providing computer implemented services using information handling systems, the method comprising:

receiving a request to decompose a composed information handling system, wherein the composed information handling system comprises a storage device and a graphics processing unit;

obtaining a cleaning requirement for the storage device;

initiating, based on the cleaning requirement, a cleaning operation on the storage device;

receiving a confirmation that the cleaning operation is complete;

after receiving the confirmation, setting a state of the storage device to allocatable;

obtaining a configuration of the graphics processing unit;

determining that the configuration does not match a default configuration of the graphics processing unit;

in response the determination, initiating modification of the configuration of the graphics processing unit to match the default configuration; and

after the configuration of the graphics processing unit matches the default configuration, setting a state of the graphics processing unit to allocatable.

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