Automatic reconfiguration of a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device

1. A computer-implemented method for automatic reconfiguration of a computing device, including requisite physical hardware and software, for supporting a virtualization infrastructure, wherein said computing device comprises independent physical server nodes, each of said independent physical server nodes disposed at a designated location within said computing device, said method comprising:

upon initialization of said computing device, including said requisite physical hardware and said software for supporting said virtualization infrastructure, self-registering functioning independent physical server nodes of said independent physical server nodes with one another, wherein one of said independent physical server nodes is a default primary independent physical server node physically located within said computing device, wherein each of said independent physical server nodes is isolated from one another and independent of one another, and wherein said computing device does not include a backplane such that said independent physical server nodes are isolated from another and independent of one another within said computing device, and comprising virtualization infrastructure management software, wherein said computing device comprises a pre-configured hyper-converged computing device, said pre-configured hyper-converged computing device further comprising:

pretested, pre-configured and pre-integrated storage, server and network components, including software, that are located in an enclosure; and

a hypervisor that supports a virtualization infrastructure; and

in response to said default primary independent physical server node being non-functional and not self-registering with said functioning independent physical server nodes, automatically reconfiguring one of said functioning independent physical server nodes as a new primary independent physical server node.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing an image of said virtualization infrastructure management software in each of said independent physical server nodes.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein said new primary independent physical server node is one of said functioning independent physical server nodes that is the furthest distance, within said computing device, from said default primary independent physical server node.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein said new primary independent physical server node is one of said functioning independent physical server nodes that is the furthest distance horizontally and vertically, within said computing device, from said default primary independent physical server node.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein said automatically reconfiguring one of said functioning independent physical server nodes as a new primary independent physical server node further comprises:

deploying said virtualization infrastructure management software to said new primary independent physical server node.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein said new primary independent physical server node is reconfigured in response to said default primary independent physical server node not self-registering within a pre-determined amount of time.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

automatically recognizing said reconfigured one of said functioning independent physical server nodes as said new primary independent physical server node.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving instructions, at said new primary independent physical server node, from a user, for configuring said computing device via said new primary independent physical server node.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein said computing device is a two rack unit-four node (2U/4N) device.